Multi-objective discrete urban road network design

This paper addresses the problem of designing urban road networks in a multi-objective decision making framework. Given a base network with only two-way links, and the candidate lane addition and link construction projects, the problem is to find the optimal combination of one-way and two-way links, the optimal selection of network capacity expansion projects, and the optimal lane allocations on two-way links to optimize the reserve capacity of the network, and two new travel time related performance measures. The problem is considered in two variations; in the first scenario, two-way links may have different numbers of lanes in each direction and in the second scenario, two-way links must have equal number of lanes in each direction. The proposed variations are formulated as mixed-integer programming problems with equilibrium constraints. A hybrid genetic algorithm, an evolutionary simulated annealing, and a hybrid artificial bee colony algorithm are proposed to solve these two new problems. A new measure is also proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of the three algorithms. Computational results for both problems are presented.     

基于多因子粒子群的高维数据特征选择算法

特征选择是机器学习和数据挖掘领域中一项重要的数据预处理技术,它旨在最大化分类任务的精度和最小化最优子集特征个数。运用粒子群算法在高维数据集中寻找最优子集面临着陷入局部最优和计算代价昂贵的问题,导致分类精度下降。针对此问题,提出了基于多因子粒子群算法的高维数据特征选择算法。引入了进化多任务的算法框架,提出了一种两任务模型生成的策略,通过任务间的知识迁移加强种群交流,提高种群多样性以改善易陷入局部最优的缺陷;设计了基于稀疏表示的初始化策略,在算法初始阶段设计具有稀疏表示的初始解,降低了种群在趋向最优解集时的计算开销。在6个公开医学高维数据集上的实验结果表明,所提算法能够有效实现分类任务且得到较好的精度。     

Hybrid discrete differential evolution algorithm for biobjective cyclic hoist scheduling with reentrance

Cyclic hoist scheduling problems in automated electroplating lines and surface processing shops attract many attentions and interests both from practitioners and researchers. In such systems, parts are transported from a workstation to another by a material handling hoist. The existing literature mainly addressed how to find an optimal cyclic schedule to minimize the cycle time that measures the productivity of the lines. The material handling cost is an important factor that needs to be considered in practice but seldom addressed in the literature. This study focuses on a biobjective cyclic hoist scheduling problem to minimize the cycle time and the material handling cost simultaneously. We consider the reentrant workstations that are usually encountered in real-life lines but inevitably make the part-flow more complicated. The problem is formulated as a biobjective linear programming model with a given hoist move sequence and transformed into finding a set of Pareto optimal hoist move sequences with respect to the bicriteria. To obtain the Pareto optimal or near-optimal front, a hybrid discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is proposed. In this hybrid evolutional algorithm, the population is divided into several subpopulations according to the maximal work-in-process (WIP) level of the system and the sizes of subpopulations are dynamically adjusted to balance the exploration and exploitation of the search. We propose a constructive heuristic to generate initial subpopulations with different WIP levels, hybrid mutation and crossover operators, an evaluation method that can tackle infeasible individuals and a one-to-one greedy tabu selection method. Computational results on both benchmark instances and randomly generated instances show that our proposed hybrid DDE algorithm outperforms the basic DDE algorithm and can solve larger-size instances than the existing ε-constraint method.     

求解多车型校车路径问题的带参数选择机制的GRASP算法

考虑到校车路径安排过程中不同车型容量和成本的差异,建立了多车型校车路径问题(SBRP)模型,并提出了一种带参数选择机制的贪婪随机自适应(GRASP)算法进行求解。在初始解构造阶段,设计一组阈值参数控制受限候选列表(RCL)的大小,使用轮盘赌法选择阈值参数。完成初始解构造后,使用可变邻域搜索(VNS)进行邻域解改进,并记录所选择的参数和解的目标值。算法迭代过程中,先设置相同阈值参数的选择概率,每隔若干次迭代后,评估每个阈值参数的性能并修改其选择概率,使得算法能够得到更好的平均解。使用基准测试案例进行了测试,比较了基本GRASP算法与设计的GRASP算法的性能,并与现有求解多车型校车路径问题的算法进行对比,实验结果表明所设计的算法是有效的。     

Fuzzy R&D portfolio selection of interdependent projects

Global competition of markets has forced firms to invest in targeted R&D projects so that resources can be focused on successful outcomes. A number of options are encountered to select the most appropriate projects in an R&D project portfolio selection problem. The selection is complicated by many factors, such as uncertainty, interdependences between projects, risk and long lead time, that are difficult to measure. Our main concern is how to deal with the uncertainty and interdependences in project portfolio selection when evaluating or estimating future cash flows. This paper presents a fuzzy multi-objective programming approach to facilitate decision making in the selection of R&D projects. Here, we present a fuzzy tri-objective R&D portfolio selection problem which maximizes the outcome and minimizes the cost and risk involved in the problem under the constraints on resources, budget, interdependences, outcome, projects occurring only once, and discuss how our methodology can be used to make decision support tools for optimal R&D project selection in a corporate environment. A case study is provided to illustrate the proposed method where the solution is done by genetic algorithm (GA) as well as by multiple objective genetic algorithm (MOGA).     

数据仓库中用于视图选择的增强遗传算法

物化视图选择问题是数据仓库设计中最重要的问题之一,为了高效地解决这一问题.提出了一个如何选择物化视图集的增强遗传算法,以便在存储空间约束的条件下,取得较好的查询性能和较低的视图维护代价.这一算法的核心思想在于,首先,运用一个基于单位空间最大收益值的预处理算法来生成初始解,然后,该初始解经采用了多种优化策略的遗传算法进行提高,这些优化策略包括:基于改进的锦标赛和精英选择相结合的选择算子、基于半均匀交叉算子及自适应变异算子.并且,在进化过程中产生的无效解用损失函数加以修补.试验结果表明,该算法在寻优性能上优于启发式算法和经典遗传算法.     

Ensemble of multi-objective metaheuristic algorithms for multi-objective unconstrained binary quadratic programming problem

Metaheuristics have been widely utilized for solving NP-hard optimization problems. However, these algorithms usually perform differently from one problem to another, i.e., one may be effective on a problem but performs badly on another problem. Therefore, it is difficult to choose the best algorithm in advance for a given problem. In contrast to selecting the best algorithm for a problem, selection hyper-heuristics aim at performing well on a set of problems (instances). This paper proposes a selection hyper-heuristic based algorithm for multi-objective optimization problems. In the proposed algorithm, multiple metaheuristics exhibiting different search behaviors are managed and controlled as low-level metaheuristics in an algorithm pool, and the most appropriate metaheuristic is selected by means of a performance indicator at each search stage. To assess the performance of the proposed algorithm, an implementation of the algorithm containing four metaheuristics is proposed and tested for solving multi-objective unconstrained binary quadratic programming problem. Experimental results on 50 benchmark instances show that the proposed algorithm can provide better overall performance than single metaheuristics, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

数据立方体选择的改进遗传算法

数据立方体选择问题是一个NP完全问题。研究了利用遗传算法来解决立方体选择问题,提出了一个结合局部搜索机制的遗传算法。这一算法的核心思想在于,首先运用一个基于单位空间最大收益值的预处理算法来生成初始解,然后该初始解经结合了局部搜索机制的遗传算法进行提高。实验结果表明,该算法在寻优性能上优于启发式算法和经典遗传算法。     

基于融合算法的测试优化选择问题研究

测试优化选择是个集覆盖问题,而启发式算法是求解集覆盖问题的有效方法。文中将遗传算法、BP神经网络和模拟退火算法进行融合,提出了一种融合算法,该算法充分利用遗传算法全局搜索能力强、BP神经网络训练能力强和模拟退火算法搜索速度快的优点,既避免陷入局部最优的现象,又提高了搜索的效率和精度。该算法已应用于求解测试优化问题。实例证明,该算法能够快速有效地求得测试优化问题的最优解。     

A <Emphasis Type="Italic">Q</Emphasis>-learning-based swarm optimization algorithm for economic dispatch problem

In this paper, we treat optimization problems as a kind of reinforcement learning problems regarding an optimization procedure for searching an optimal solution as a reinforcement learning procedure for finding the best policy to maximize the expected rewards. This viewpoint motivated us to propose a Q-learning-based swarm optimization (QSO) algorithm. The proposed QSO algorithm is a population-based optimization algorithm which integrates the essential properties of Q-learning and particle swarm optimization. The optimization procedure of the QSO algorithm proceeds as each individual imitates the behavior of the global best one in the swarm. The best individual is chosen based on its accumulated performance instead of its momentary performance at each evaluation. Two data sets including a set of benchmark functions and a real-world problem—the economic dispatch (ED) problem for power systems—were used to test the performance of the proposed QSO algorithm. The simulation results on the benchmark functions show that the proposed QSO algorithm is comparable to or even outperforms several existing optimization algorithms. As for the ED problem, the proposed QSO algorithm has found solutions better than all previously found solutions.     

用GA 求解动态联盟中伙伴选择的多目标优化模型

描述了动态联盟中的伙伴选择问题，针对以活动网络形式组织的项目，建立伙伴选择的多目标优化模型，实现项目失败风险最小化和项目费用与拖期惩罚总额最小化，并利用带自适应移动线技术的遗传算法，求得问题的整个非劣解集合或近似集合。计算结果证明了算法的有效性和模型的实用性。     

A decomposition based memetic algorithm for multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) provides an excellent algorithmic framework for solving multi-objective optimization problems. It decomposes a target problem into a set of scalar sub-problems and optimizes them simultaneously. Due to its simplicity and outstanding performance, MOEA/D has been widely studied and applied. However, for solving the multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows (MO-VRPTW), MOEA/D faces a difficulty that many sub-problems have duplicated best solutions. It is well-known that MO-VRPTW is a challenging problem and has very few Pareto optimal solutions. To address this problem, a novel selection operator is designed in this work to enhance the original MOEA/D for dealing with MO-VRPTW. Moreover, three local search methods are introduced into the enhanced algorithm. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can obtain highly competitive results on Solomon׳s benchmark problems. Especially for instances with long time windows, the proposed algorithm can obtain more diverse set of non-dominated solutions than the other algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed selection operator is also demonstrated by further analysis.     

面向短文本的特征选择及文本表示

短文本由于其稀疏性、实时性、非标准性等特点,在文本特征选择和文本表示方面存在较多问题,从而影响文本分类精度。针对文本特征选择方面存在较高的特征维数灾难的问题,提出一种二阶段的文本特征选择算法。首先在互信息算法的基础上,引入平衡因子、频度、集中度、词性及词在文本中的位置等5个指标对互信息值进行计算,然后将排序结果靠前的特征集初始化进行遗传算法的训练从而得到最优特征集合。因为TFIDF在计算时针对的是整篇语料而没有考虑类间分布不均的情况,在计算IDF公式时引入方差,并将改进后的TFIDF公式对Word2Vec词向量进行加权表示文本。将改进算法应用在人工构建的百科用途短文本语料集中进行实验,实验结果表明改进的文本特征选择算法和文本表示算法对分类效果有2%~5%的提升。     

基于改进粒子群优化的无标记数据鲁棒聚类算法

已有的聚类算法大多仅考虑单一的目标,导致对某些形状的数据集性能较弱,对此提出一种基于改进粒子群优化的无标记数据鲁棒聚类算法。优化阶段:首先,采用多目标粒子群优化的经典形式生成聚类解集合;然后,使用K-means算法生成随机分布的初始化种群,并为其分配随机初始化的速度;最终,采用MaxiMin策略确定帕累托最优解。决策阶段：测量帕累托解集与理想解的距离,将距离最短的帕累托解作为最终聚类解。对比实验结果表明,本算法对不同形状的数据集均可获得较优的类簇数量,对目标问题的复杂度具有较好的鲁棒性。     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-most suitable locations selection

Choosing the best location for starting a business or expanding an existing enterprize is an important issue. A number of location selection problems have been discussed in the literature. They often apply the Reverse Nearest Neighbor as the criterion for finding suitable locations. In this paper, we apply the Average Distance as the criterion and propose the so-called k-most suitable locations (k-MSL) selection problem. Given a positive integer k and three datasets: a set of customers, a set of existing facilities, and a set of potential locations. The k-MSL selection problem outputs k locations from the potential location set, such that the average distance between a customer and his nearest facility is minimized. In this paper, we formally define the k-MSL selection problem and show that it is NP-hard. We first propose a greedy algorithm which can quickly find an approximate result for users. Two exact algorithms are then proposed to find the optimal result. Several pruning rules are applied to increase computational efficiency. We evaluate the algorithms’ performance using both synthetic and real datasets. The results show that our algorithms are able to deal with the k-MSL selection problem efficiently.     

An integrated approach to automated innovization for discovering useful design principles: Case studies from engineering

Computational optimization methods are most often used to find a single or multiple optimal or near-optimal solutions to the underlying optimization problem describing the problem at hand. In this paper, we elevate the use of optimization to a higher level in arriving at useful problem knowledge associated with the optimal or near-optimal solutions to a problem. In the proposed innovization process, first a set of trade-off optimal or near-optimal solutions are found using an evolutionary algorithm. Thereafter, the trade-off solutions are analyzed to decipher useful relationships among problem entities automatically so as to provide a better understanding of the problem to a designer or a practitioner. We provide an integrated algorithm for the innovization process and demonstrate the usefulness of the procedure to three real-world engineering design problems. New and innovative design principles obtained in each case should clearly motivate engineers and practitioners for its further application to more complex problems and its further development as a more efficient data analysis procedure.     

A clonal selection algorithm for urban bus vehicle scheduling

The bus vehicle scheduling problem addresses the task of assigning vehicles to cover the trips in a timetable. In this paper, a clonal selection algorithm based vehicle scheduling approach is proposed to quickly generate satisfactory solutions for large-scale bus scheduling problems. Firstly, a set of vehicle blocks (consecutive trips by one bus) is generated based on the maximal wait time between any two adjacent trips. Then a subset of blocks is constructed by the clonal selection algorithm to produce an initial vehicle scheduling solution. Finally, two heuristics adjust the departure times of vehicles to further improve the solution. The proposed approach is evaluated using a real-world vehicle scheduling problem from the bus company of Nanjing, China. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can generate satisfactory scheduling solutions within 1 min.     

A new particle swarm feature selection method for classification

Searching for an optimal feature subset from a high-dimensional feature space is an NP-complete problem; hence, traditional optimization algorithms are inefficient when solving large-scale feature selection problems. Therefore, meta-heuristic algorithms are extensively adopted to solve such problems efficiently. This study proposes a regression-based particle swarm optimization for feature selection problem. The proposed algorithm can increase population diversity and avoid local optimal trapping by improving the jump ability of flying particles. The data sets collected from UCI machine learning databases are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Classification accuracy is used as a criterion to evaluate classifier performance. Results show that our proposed approach outperforms both genetic algorithms and sequential search algorithms.     

A genetic algorithm approach for solving the daily photograph selection problem of the SPOT5 satellite

This article addresses the combinatorial optimization problem of managing earth observation satellites (EOSs) such as the French SPOT5, which is concerned with selecting on each day a subset of a set of candidate photographs. The problem has a significant economic importance due to its high initial investment cost that exists in these instruments and its solution difficulty resulting from the large solution space, making it an attractive research area. This article proposes a genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the SPOT5 selection problem using a new genome representation for maximizing not only a single objective as profit but a multi-criteria objective that includes the number of acquired photographs. Test results of our proposed GA show that it finds optimal solutions effectively for moderate size problems and obtains better results for two large benchmark instances coded 1403 and 1504 in the literature. Also, we verify the result that the best known value in the literature for problem coded 1401 is an optimal value.     

基于变异精密搜索的蜂群聚类算法

针对K-means 聚类算法过度依赖初始聚类中心、局部收敛、稳定性差等问题, 提出一种基于变异精密搜索的蜂群聚类算法. 该算法利用密度和距离初始化蜂群, 并根据引领蜂的适应度和密度求解跟随蜂的选择概率P;  然后通过变异精密搜索法产生的新解来更新侦查蜂, 以避免陷入局部最优; 最后结合蜂群与粗糙集来优化K-means. 实验结果表明, 该算法不仅能有效抑制局部收敛、减少对初始聚类中心的依赖, 而且准确率和稳定性均有较大的提高.