We present an empirical study of a range of evolutionary algorithms applied to various noisy combinatorial optimisation problems. There are three sets of experiments. The first looks at several toy problems, such as O...
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We present a time complexity analysis of the Opt-IA artificial immune system (AIS). We first highlight the power and limitations of its distinguishing operators (i.e., hypermutations with mutation potential and ageing...
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We present a time complexity analysis of the Opt-IA artificial immune system (AIS). We first highlight the power and limitations of its distinguishing operators (i.e., hypermutations with mutation potential and ageing) by analysing them in isolation. Recent work has shown that ageing combined with local mutations can help escape local optima on a dynamic optimisation benchmark function. We generalise this result by rigorously proving that, compared to evolutionary algorithms (EAs), ageing leads to impressive speed-ups on the standard CLIFFd benchmark function both when using local and global mutations. Unless the stop at first constructive mutation (FCM) mechanism is applied, we show that hypermutations require exponential expected runtime to optimise any function with a polynomial number of optima. If instead FCM is used, the expected runtime is at most a linear factor larger than the upper bound achieved for any random local search algorithm using the artificial fitness levels method. Nevertheless, we prove that algorithms using hypermutations can be considerably faster than EAs at escaping local optima. An analysis of the complete Opt-IA reveals that it is efficient on the previously considered functions and highlights problems where the use of the full algorithm is crucial. We complete the picture by presenting a class of functions for which Opt-IA fails with overwhelming probability while standard EAs are efficient. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Memetic algorithms integrate local search into an evolutionary algorithm to combine the advantages of rapid exploitation and global optimisation. We provide a rigorous runtime analysis of memetic algorithms on the Hur...
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Memetic algorithms integrate local search into an evolutionary algorithm to combine the advantages of rapid exploitation and global optimisation. We provide a rigorous runtime analysis of memetic algorithms on the Hurdle problem, a landscape class of tunable difficulty with a "big valley structure", a characteristic feature of many hard combinatorial optimisation problems. A parameter called hurdle width describes the length of fitness valleys that need to be overcome. We show that the expected runtime of plain evolutionary algorithms like the (1+1) EA increases steeply with the hurdle width, yielding superpolynomial times to find the optimum, whereas a simple memetic algorithm, (1+1) MA, only needs polynomial expected time. Surprisingly, while increasing the hurdle width makes the problem harder for evolutionary algorithms, it becomes easier for memetic algorithms. We further give the first rigorous proof that crossover can decrease the expected runtime in memetic algorithms. A (2+1) MA using mutation, crossover and local search outperforms any other combination of these operators. Our results demonstrate the power of memetic algorithms for problems with big valley structures and the benefits of hybridising multiple search operators. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Seismic behaviour factors represent the ratio between the strength of a structure, assuming it always maintains an elastic behaviour, and the strength demand with plastic behaviour and consequent loss of stiffness, at...
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Seismic behaviour factors represent the ratio between the strength of a structure, assuming it always maintains an elastic behaviour, and the strength demand with plastic behaviour and consequent loss of stiffness, at the seismic target displacement. This value is closely related to ductility and to energy dissipation due to hysteretic behaviour. The use of behaviour factors allows to design structures with elastic models, without having to explicitly account for material non-linearity while taking advantage of ductility. However, the definition of these values is not easy, and is dependent on several factors. In bridges, these factors can be, among others, regularity of the bridge in terms of pier height, concrete and steel quality, size of elements and amount of steel reinforcement, pier confinement, etc. These factors influence ductility demand and available ductility in different ways and through multi-objective optimization (MOO), the infrastructure solutions that maximize the use of the available ductility under a given earthquake action and for a given bridge superstructure, pier height scheme and ductility class according to Eurocode 8-part 2, can be obtained. Those optimized solutions, which are obtained through the minimization of steel and concrete in the piers as concurrent objectives, are associated with the maximum behaviour factors that can be used in the design of a given bridge and can be compared with the values recommended by EC8-part 2. Without loss of generality, the methodology is applied to a set of case-studies composed of RC bridges with four 30-m spans and circular piers, analysed in the longitudinal direction and without accounting for abutment effects. With the results from the MOO, the behaviour factors associated to solutions with different ductility levels and pier irregularity schemes are calculated and equations are derived, relating the obtained behaviour factors with a pier irregularity measure and ductility level. The results also
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second main cause of cancer mortality after lung cancer. Up to now, there still no prevention nor early symptoms of breast cancer. Early detection can...
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second main cause of cancer mortality after lung cancer. Up to now, there still no prevention nor early symptoms of breast cancer. Early detection can decrease significantly the mortality rate as the disease can be treated at an early stage. X-Ray is the current screening method that helps in detecting the most two common abnormalities of the breast, masses and micro-calcifications. However, interpreting mammograms is challenging in dense breasts as the abnormal masses and the normal glandular tissue of the breast have similar characteristics. Recently, the evolutionary algorithms have been widely used in image segmentation. In this paper, we evaluate and compare the performance of six most used evolutionary algorithms, invasive weed optimization (IWO), genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), electromagnetism-like optimization (EMO), ant colony optimization (ACO), and artificial bee colony (ABC) in terms of clustering abnormal masses in the breast, particularly dense and extremely dense breasts. This evaluation is conducted based on quantitative metrics including Cohen's Kappa, correlation, and false positive and false negative rates. The evolutionary algorithms are then ranked based on two multi-criteria decision analysis methods, the Preference Ranking Organization Method for the Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE) and the Graphical Analysis for Interactive Aid (GAIA).
The development of ultra-intense laser-based sources of high energy ions is an important goal, with a variety of potential applications. One of the barriers to achieving this goal is the need to maximize the conversio...
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The development of ultra-intense laser-based sources of high energy ions is an important goal, with a variety of potential applications. One of the barriers to achieving this goal is the need to maximize the conversion efficiency from laser energy to ion energy. We apply a new approach to this problem, in which we use an evolutionary algorithm to optimize conversion efficiency by exploring variations of the target density profile with thousands of one-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. We then compare this 'optimal' target identified by the one-dimensional PIC simulations to more conventional choices, such as with an exponential scale length pre-plasma, with fully three-dimensional PIC simulations. The optimal target outperforms the conventional targets in terms of maximum ion energy by 20% and show a noticeable enhancement of conversion efficiency to >2 MeV ions. This target geometry enhances laser coupling to the electrons, while still allowing the laser to strongly reflect from an effectively thin target. These results underscore the potential for this statistics-driven approach to guide research into optimizing laser-plasma simulations and experiments.
A recent comparison of well-established multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) has helped better identify the current state-of-the-art by considering (i) parameter tuning through automatic configuration, (ii) ...
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A recent comparison of well-established multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) has helped better identify the current state-of-the-art by considering (i) parameter tuning through automatic configuration, (ii) a wide range of different setups, and (iii) various performance metrics. Here, we automatically devise MOEAs with verified state-of-the-art performance for multi- and many-objective continuous optimization. Our work is based on two main considerations. The first is that high-performing algorithms can be obtained from a configurable algorithmic framework in an automated way. The second is that multiple performance metrics may be required to guide this automatic design process. In the first part of this work, we extend our previously proposed algorithmic framework, increasing the number of MOEAs, underlying evolutionary algorithms, and search paradigms that it comprises. These components can be combined following a general MOEA template, and an automatic configuration method is used to instantiate high-performing MOEA designs that optimize a given performance metric and present state-of-the-art performance. In the second part, we propose a multiobjective formulation for the automatic MOEA design, which proves critical for the context of many-objective optimization due to the disagreement of established performance metrics. Our proposed formulation leads to an automatically designed MOEA that presents state-of-the-art performance according to a set of metrics, rather than a single one.
Tissue engineering is a fast progressing domain where solutions are provided for organ failure or tissue damage. In this domain, computer models can facilitate the design of optimal production process conditions leadi...
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Tissue engineering is a fast progressing domain where solutions are provided for organ failure or tissue damage. In this domain, computer models can facilitate the design of optimal production process conditions leading to robust and economically viable products. In this study, we use a previously published computationally efficient model, describing the neotissue growth (cells + their extracellular matrix) inside 3D scaffolds in a perfusion bioreactor. In order to find the most cost-effective medium refreshment strategy for the bioreactor culture, a multi-objective optimization strategy was developed aimed at maximizing the neotissue growth while minimizing the total cost of the experiment. Four evolutionary optimization algorithms (NSGAII, MOPSO, MOEA/D and GDEIII) were applied to the problem and the Pareto frontier was computed in all methods. All algorithms led to a similar outcome, albeit with different convergence speeds. The simulation results indicated that, given the actual cost of the labor compared to the medium cost, the most cost-efficient way of refreshing the medium was obtained by minimizing the refreshment frequency and maximizing the refreshment amount.
For the classification of motor imagery brain-computer interface (BCI) based on electroencephalography (EEG), appropriate features are crucial to obtain a high classification accuracy. Considering the characteristics ...
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For the classification of motor imagery brain-computer interface (BCI) based on electroencephalography (EEG), appropriate features are crucial to obtain a high classification accuracy. Considering the characteristics of the EEG signals, the time-frequency-space three-dimensional features are extracted. Due to a considerable number of the extracted features, the performance of a classifier will degrade. Therefore, it is necessary to implement feature selection. However, existing feature selection methods are easy to fall into a local optimum of a high-dimensional feature selection problem. In this paper, a dimensionality reduction mechanism (called DimReM) is proposed, which gradually reduces the dimension of the search space by removing some unimportant features. In principle, DimReM transforms a high-dimensional feature selection problem into a low-dimensional one. DimReM does not introduce any additional parameters and its implementation is simple. To verify its effectiveness, DimReM is combined with different evolutionary algorithms and different classifiers to select features on various kinds of datasets. Compared with evolutionary algorithms without dimensionality reduction, their augmented versions equipped with DimReM can find feature subsets with higher classification accuracies while smaller numbers of selected features.
Hydropower generation in the Hetch Hetchy Power System is strongly tied to snowmelt dynamics in the central Sierra Nevada and consequently is particularly financially vulnerable to changes in snowpack availability and...
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Hydropower generation in the Hetch Hetchy Power System is strongly tied to snowmelt dynamics in the central Sierra Nevada and consequently is particularly financially vulnerable to changes in snowpack availability and timing. This study explores the Hetchy Hetchy Power System as a representative example from the broader class of financial risk management problems that hold promise in helping utilities such as SFPUC to understand the tradeoffs across portfolios of risk mitigation instruments given uncertainties in snowmelt dynamics. An evolution-ary multi-objective direct policy search (EMODPS) framework is implemented to identify time adaptive stochastic rules that map utility state information and exogenous inputs to optimal annual financial decisions. The resulting financial risk mitigation portfolio planning problem is mathematically difficult due to its high dimensionality and mixture of nonlinear, nonconvex, and discrete objectives. These features add to the difficulty of the problem by yielding a Pareto front of solutions that has a highly disjoint and complex geometry. In this study, we contribute a diagnostic assessment of state-of-the-art multi-objective evolutionary algorithms' (MOEAs') abilities to support a DPS framework for managing financial risk. We perform comprehensive diagnostics on five algorithms: the Borg multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), Non dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III (NSGA-III), Reference Vector Guided evolutionary Algorithm (RVEA), and the Multi-objective evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition (MOEA/D). The MOEAs are evaluated to characterize their controllability (ease-of-use), reliability (probability of success), efficiency (minimizing model evaluations), and effectiveness (high quality tradeoff representations). Our results show that newer decomposition, reference point, and reference vector algorithms are highly sensitive to their parameterizations (difficult
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