Practical Applications in Constrained Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization


Abstract

Constrained optimization is applicable to most real world engineering science problems. An efficient constraint handling method must be robust, reli- able and computationally efficient. However, the performance of constraint handling mechanism deteriorates with the increase of multi-modality, non-linearity and non- convexity of the constraint functions. Most of the classical mathematics based opti- mization techniques fails to tackle these issues. Hence, researchers round the globe are putting hard effort to deal with multi-modality, non-linearity and non-convexity, as their presence in the real world problems are unavoidable. Initially, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) were developed for unconstrained optimization but engineering problems are always with certain type of constraints. The in-dependability of EAs to the structure of problem has led the researchers to re-think in applying the same to the problems incorporating the constraints. The constraint handling techniques have been successfully used to solve many single objective problems but there has been limited work in applying them to the multi-objective optimization problem. Since for most engineering science problems conflicting multi-objectives have to be satisfied simultaneously, multi-objective constraint handling should be one of the most active research area in engineering optimization. Hence, in this chapter authors have con- centrated in explaining the constrained multi-objective optimization problem along with their applications.