Genetic algorithms and fuzzy multiobjective optimization (Q5959187)

In this book, the author is concerned with introducing the latest advances in the field of genetic algorithm optimization for 0-1 programming, integer programming, nonconvex programming, and job-shop scheduling problems under multiobjectiveness and fuzziness together with a wide range of actual applications on the basis of the author's continuing research works. Special stress is placed on interactive decision making aspects of fuzzy multiobjective optimization for human-centered systems in most realistic situations when dealing with fuzziness. The organization of each chapter is briefly summarized as follow. Chapter 2 is devoted to foundations of genetic algorithms that will be used in the remainder of the book. Chapter 3 presents a detailed treatment of genetic algorithms with double strings as developed for multidimensional 0-1 knapsack problems. In Chapter 4, multiobjective 0-1 programming problems are formulated by assuming that the decision maker may have a fuzzy goal for each of the objective functions. In Chapter 5 genetic algorithms with double strings for 0-1 programming problems are extended to deal with integer 0-1 programming problems. Chapter 6 can be viewed as the fuzzy multiobjective version of Chapter 5 and is devoted to an integer generalization along the same lines as Chapter 3. In Chapter 7 the coevolutionary genetic algorithm called GENOCOP III is discussed in detail. In Chapter 8, attention is focused on not only multiobjective nonlinear programming problems but also multiobjective nonlinear programming problems with fuzzy numbers. Chapter 9 treats job-shop scheduling problems that are to determine a processing order of operations on each machine in order to minimize the maximum completion time. In Chapter 10, job-shop scheduling problems with fuzzy processing time and fuzzy due date are formulated. Finally, Chapter 11 is concerned with some application aspects of genetic algorithms.