Multiagent systems have had a powerful impact on the real world. Many of the systems it studies (air traffic, satellite coordination, rover exploration) are inherently multi-objective, but they are often treated as single-objective problems within the research. A key concept within multiagent systems is that of credit assignment: quantifying an individual agent’s impact on the overall system pe...

A generic integrated configuration-size optimisation formulation for design of hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) is presented in this paper. This allows identifying the optimum configuration a given site and size each component that by solving only one problem. Single multiobjective case studies are defined both on-grid standalone using wind turbine, PV panel, battery bank, fuel cell, elec...

In this paper, we apply an elitist multi-objective genetic algorithm for solving mechanical component design problems with multiple objectives. Although there exists a number of classical techniques, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have an edge over the classical methods in that they can find multiple Pareto-optimal solutions in one single simulation run. The proposed algorithm (we call NSGA-II) ...

The Evolutionary Computation has grown much in last few years. Inspired by biological evolution, this field is used to solve NP-hard optimization problems to come up with best solution. TSP is most popular and complex problem used to evaluate different algorithms. In this paper, we have conducted a comparative analysis between NSGA-II, NSGA-III, SPEA-2, MOEA/D and VEGA to find out which algorit...

the present research proposes and optimizes the performance of a novel solar-driven combined cooling, heating, and power (cchp) kalina system for two seasons—winter and summer—based on exergy, exergo-economic, and exergo-environmental concepts applying a non-dominated sort genetic algorithm-ii (nsga-ii) technique. three criteria, i.e. daily exergy efficiency, total product cost rate, and total ...

In this paper we consider a k-out-of-N system with identical, repairable components under a condition-based maintenance policy. Maintenance consists of replacing all failed and/or aged components. Next, the replaced components have to be repaired. The system availability can be controlled by the maintenance policy, the spare part inventory level, the repair capacity and repair job priority sett...

With the development of customization concept, small-batch and multi-variety production will become one major modes, especially for fast-moving consumer goods. However, this mode has two issues: high cost long manufacturing period. To address these issues, study proposes a multi-objective optimization model flexible flow-shop to optimize scheduling, which would maximize efficiency by minimizing...

In this paper, we consider series-parallel and parallel-series systems with independent subsystems consisting of dependent homogeneous components whose joint lifetimes are modeled by an Archimedean copula. Then, by considering two such systems with different numbers of components within each subsystem, we establish hazard rate and reversed hazard rate orderings between the two system lifetimes,...

A parallel (2, n – 2)-system is investigated here where two units start their operation simultaneously and any one of them is replaced instantaneously upon its failure by one of the (2; n – 2) warm standbys. We assume availability of n non-identical, non-repairable units. The unit-lifetimes in full operational mode and in partial operational mode have general distribution functions Gi and Hi (i...