Most real-world problems have several (and normally conflicting) objectives that have to be satisfied at the same time. Such problems are called multi- objective and have become very popular in the last few years.
Vilfredo Pareto stated in 1896 a concept (known today as "Pareto optimum") that constitutes the origin of research in multi-objective optimization. According to this concept, the solution to a multi-objective optimization problem is normally not a single value, but instead a set of values (also called the Pareto set).
The interest of applying evolutionary computation techniques to multi-objective optimization dates back to the 1960s, with Rosenberg's doctoral dissertation. One of the reasons why evolutionary algorithms are so suitable for multi-objective optimization is because they can generate a whole set of solutions (the Pareto set) in a single run rather than requiring an iterative process like traditional mathematical programming techniques.
As reflected by the EMOO repository, the interest on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMOO) is made evident by the high volume of publications on this topic that have been produced since its inception, in 1984, (the EMOO repository currently has over 245 PhD theses, more than 2450 journal papers, and more than 2500 conference papers). The main aim of this special session organized within the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2012) (which will take place within the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence) is to bring together both experts and newcomers working on EMOO to discuss different issues including (among others) the following:
Hernan Aguirre |
Shinshu University | Japan |
Kalyanmoy Deb | IIT - Kanpur | India |
Peter Fleming | University of Sheffield | UK |
Carlos M. Fonseca | University of Coimbra | Portugal |
Arturo Hernández Aguirre | Center for Research in Mathematics | Mexico |
Joshua Knowles |
University of Manchester | UK |
Arnaud Liefooghe |
Université Lille 1 | France |
Boris Naujoks |
Cologne University of Applied Sciences | Germany |
Robin C. Purshouse |
University of Sheffield | UK |
Oliver Schütze |
CINVESTAV-IPN | Mexico |
Kiyoshi Tanaka | Shinshu University | Japan |
David A. Van Veldhuizen | Air Force Research Laboratory | USA |
Last Update: September 20th, 2011.