Multiobjective Problem Solving from Nature: From Concepts to Applications Book

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Search, Optimization and Decision Making.- Multiobjective EA Basics.- Multiobjective Cybernetics - Does Nature Solve Problems and Are They Multiobjective?.- Modularity Causes Multiple Objectives in Natural and Computational Systems.- Problem Decomposition, Modularity and their relation to Multiple Objectives.- Spatial Predator-Prey Models of Multiobjective Optimization.- Solution Concepts in Co-evolution and Multi-objective Search.- How Multiple Objectives are Used and their Effects on Solution Selection Methods.- Ill-Defined Problem Spaces.- Constrained Optimization via MOEAs.- Multiobjectivization.- Helper Objectives.- Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization.- Assessing the Intrinsic Number of Objectives.- Assessing the Intrinsic Number of Decision Variables.- Fuzzy Dominance, Favour and other Relations beyond Pareto Optimality.- Multiobjective Clustering.- Reducing Bloat in GP with Multiple Objectives.- Multiobjective GP for Human-Understandable Models.- Multiobjective Supervised Learning.- Multiobjective Association Rule Mining.- Protein-folding via MOEAs and Solution Selection.- Unveiling Salient Insights in Engineering Designs with MOEAs.- Conclusions.- MOEA: Triumph of Natural Computing.- References.- Index