this study is focused on developing an integrated optimization-simulation based genetic algorithm model (iosga) to develop the operational policies for a multi-purpose reservoir system. the objective function of the optimization model is considered to be a linear function of reliability (rel), resiliency (res), and vulnerability (vul) of the river-reservoir system. genetic algorithm (ga) is emp...

the article suggests an algorithm for regular classifier ensemble methodology. the proposed methodology is based on possibilistic aggregation to classify samples. the argued method optimizes an objective function that combines environment recognition, multi-criteria aggregation term and a learning term. the optimization aims at learning backgrounds as solid clusters in subspaces of the high-dim...

in this paper, a stochastic cell formation problem is studied using queuing theory framework and considering reliability. since cell formation problem is np-hard, two algorithms based on genetic and modified particle swarm optimization (mpso) algorithms are developed to solve the problem. for generating initial solutions in these algorithms, a new heuristic method is developed, which always cre...

In this paper, we describe the supervised learning approach to optimization problems in the spirit of the PAC learning model. By this approach, we discover domain-specific algorithms by learning from an oracle, which is also an optimization algorithm for the problem in question. We describe examples of learning backtracking-based algorithms and algorithms that implement the dynamic programming ...

this paper proposes the exchange market algorithm (ema) to solve the combined economic and emission dispatch (ceed) problems in thermal power plants. the ema is a new, robust and efficient algorithm to exploit the global optimum point in optimization problems. existence of two seeking operators in ema provides a high ability in exploiting global optimum point. in order to show the capabilities ...

In recent years, attention has been focused on the relationship between black box optimization and reinforcement learning. Black box optimization is a framework for the problem of finding the input that optimizes the output represented by an unknown function. Reinforcement learning, by contrast, is a framework for finding a policy to optimize the expected cumulative reward from trial and error....