Formulation of an automatic calibration strategy for the MIKE 11/NAM rainfall–runoff model is outlined. The calibration scheme includes optimisation of multiple objectives that measure different aspects of the hydrograph: (1) overall water balance, (2) overall shape of the hydrograph, (3) peak flows, and (4) low flows. An automatic optimisation procedure based on the shuffled complex evolution ...

A kind of unrelated parallel machines scheduling problem is discussed. The memberships of fuzzy due dates denote the grades of satisfaction with respect to completion times with jobs. Objectives of scheduling are to maximize the minimum grade of satisfaction while makespan is minimized in the meantime. Two kind of genetic algorithms are employed to search optimal solution set of the problem. Bo...

Many real-world optimization problems involve multiple conflicting objectives and the use of evolutionary algorithms to solve the problems has attracted much attention recently. This paper investigates the application of multi-objective optimization technique for the design of a Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC)-based controller to enhance the performance of a power system. The des...

The assignment of multiobjective human resources is a very important phase of the decisionmaking process, especially with respect to research and development projects where performance strongly depends on human resources capabilities. Unfortunately, the input data or related parameters are frequently imprecise / fuzzy owing to incomplete or unobtainable information, which can be represented as ...

In many real-world applications, the problem arises that several objectives have to be optimized concurrently leading to a multi-objective optimization problem. Since these goals are typically contradictory, it comes as no surprise that the solution set— the so-called Pareto set—of such problems does (in general) not consist of one single solution. Moreover, under some mild conditions, this set...

Can the Pareto criterion guide policymakers who do not know the true model of the economy? If policymakers specify ex ante preferences for agents, then Pareto improvements from a distorted status quo are usually possible, and with more commodities than states, one can implement almost every Pareto optimum. Unlike the standard second welfare theorem, planners cannot dictate allocations: agents m...

We study the properties of finitely complex, symmetric, globally stable, and semi-perfect equilibria. We show that: (1) If a strategy satisfies these properties then players play a Nash equilibrium of the stage game in every period; (2) The set of finitely complex, symmetric, globally stable, semi-perfect equilibrium payoffs in the repeated game equals the set of Nash equilibria payoffs in the ...

Title: Analysis of manufacturing supply chains using system dynamics and multi-objective optimization I ABSTRACT Supply chains are in general complex networks composed of autonomous entities whereby multiple performance measures in different levels, which in most cases are in conflict with each other, have to be taken into account. Hence, due to these multiple performance measures, supply chain...

Multi-objective optimization problems are currently gaining significant attentions from researchers because many real-world optimization problems consist of contradictory objectives. SPEA (Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm) is one of the most successful multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for approximating the Pareto-optimal set for multiobjective optimization problems. In this paper, ...

Often the Pareto front of a multi-objective optimization problem grows exponentially with the problem size. In this case, it is not possible to compute the whole Pareto front efficiently and one is interested in good approximations. We consider how evolutionary algorithms can achieve such approximations by using different diversity mechanisms. We discuss some well-known approaches such as the d...