vendor selection decisions are complicated by the fact that various conflicting multi-objective factors must be considered in the decision making process. the problem of vendor selection becomes still more compli-cated with the inclusion of incremental discount pricing schedule. such hard combinatorial problems when solved using meta heuristics produce near optimal solutions. this paper propose...

a three stage production system is considered in this paper. there are two stages to fabricate and ready the parts and an assembly stage to assembly the parts and complete the products in this system. suppose that a number of products of different kinds are ordered. each product is assembled with a set of several parts. at first the parts are produced in the first stage with parallel machines a...

this paper considers the job scheduling problem in virtual manufacturing cells (vmcs) with the goal of minimizing two objectives namely, makespan and total travelling distance. to solve this problem two algorithms are proposed: traditional non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (nsga-ii) and knowledge-based non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (kbnsga-ii). the difference between these algor...

In recent years, the optimization of multi-objective service composition in distributed systems has become an important issue. Existing work makes a smaller set Pareto-optimal solutions to represent Pareto Front (PF). However, they do not support complex mapping quality (QoS) objective space, thus having limitations providing representative solutions. We propose enhanced differential evolution ...

This paper proposes the multi-objective variant of recently-introduced fitness dependent optimizer (FDO). The algorithm is called a (MOFDO) and equipped with all five types knowledge (situational, normative, topographical, domain, historical knowledge) as in FDO. MOFDO tested on two standard benchmarks for performance-proof purpose: classical ZDT test functions, which widespread suite that take...

During the past few decades, multi-agent optimization problems have drawn increased attention from research community. When multiple objective functions are present among agents, many works optimize sum of these functions. However, this formulation implies a decision regarding relative importance each objective: optimizing is special case multi-objective problem in which all objectives prioriti...