A Socio-Behavioural Simulation Model for Engineering Design Optimization

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for solving single objective constrained optimization 
problems by way of a socio-behavioural simulation model. The essence of the methodology 
is derived from the concept that the behaviour of an individual changes and improves due to 
social interaction with the society leaders. Leaders are identified after all individuals of a 
society are Pareto ranked according to constraint satisfaction. At the higher end, leaders 
of all societies interact among themselves for the overall improvement of the societies. 
Such overall improvement of individual societies leads to a better civilization. Four 
well-studied single objective constrained optimization problems have been solved to 
show the efficacy of the proposed methodology.