Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Ankur Sinha Name of the doctoral dissertation Progressively Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Publisher Aalto University School of Economics Unit Department of Business Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 17/2011 Field of research Decision Making and Optimization Abst...

This paper describes the foundations of a market mechanism that was designed to stimulate more efficient provisions of forest ecosystem services to society. The proposed tool is a competitive multi-unit public goods subscription game of incomplete information. A conceptual and mathematical characterization of the game is followed by an illustrative example where Pareto-efficient bundles of timb...

The Mental Health Emergency Care-Rural Access Program (MHEC-RAP) is a telehealth solution providing specialist emergency mental health care to rural and remote communities across western NSW, Australia. This is the first time and motion (T&M) study to examine program efficiency and capacity for a telepsychiatry program. Clinical services are an integral aspect of the program accounting for ...

This paper formalizes and adapts the well known concept of Pareto efficiency in the context of the popular robust optimization (RO) methodology. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the associated property of Pareto optimality, and illustrate via examples how this could lead to inefficiencies and sub-optimal performance in practice. We provide a basic ...

This paper presents a preference-based method to handle optimization problems with multiple objectives. With an increase in the number of objectives the computational cost in solving a multi-objective optimization problem rises exponentially, and it becomes increasingly difficult for evolutionary multi-objective techniques to produce the entire Pareto-optimal front. In this paper, an evolutiona...

This final rule identifies reforms in Medicare and Medicaid regulations that CMS has identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on health care providers and beneficiaries. This rule increases the ability of health care professionals to devote resources to improving patient care, by eliminating or reducing requirements that impede quality patient care or that divert providing...

performance evaluation of electricity distribution units is an important issue between researchers and regulators. classic data envelopment analysis models with deterministic data have been used by many authors to measure efficiency of power distribution units in different countries. however, data envelopment analysis with stochastic data are rarely used to measure efficiency of distribution co...

Arrangements of planar curves are fundamental structures in computational geometry. We describe the recent developments in the arrangement package of Cgal, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library, making it easier to use, to extend and to adapt to a variety of applications. This improved flexibility of the code does not come at the expense of efficiency as we mainly use generic-programmin...

Obtaining maximum performance from parallel distributed memory machines depends on partitioning parallel programs into modules and scheduling those modules for the shortest possible execution time. The scheduling problem is known to be NP-hard and heuristic algorithms have been proposed to obtain optimal and sub optimal solutions. The partitioning algorithm partitions an application into tasks ...