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Parallel Approaches for Multiobjective Optimization

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Multiobjective Optimization

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This chapter presents a general overview of parallel approaches for multiobjective optimization. For this purpose, we propose a taxonomy for parallel metaheuristics and exact methods. This chapter covers the design aspect of the algorithms as well as the implementation aspects on different parallel and distributed architectures.

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Jürgen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex, France

    El-Ghazali Talbi

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sanaz Mostaghim

  3. Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., 8-1 Honcho, Wako-City, Saitama, 351-0188, Japan

    Tatsuya Okabe

  4. Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan

    Hisao Ishibuchi

  5. Computational Intelligence Research Group Chair of Algorithm Engineering (LS XI) Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Günter Rudolph

  6. CINVESTAV-IPN (Evolutionary Computation Group) Depto. de Computación, Av. IPN No 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, México, D.F., 07360, Mexico

    Carlos A. Coello Coello

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Talbi, EG., Mostaghim, S., Okabe, T., Ishibuchi, H., Rudolph, G., Coello Coello, C.A. (2008). Parallel Approaches for Multiobjective Optimization . In: Branke, J., Deb, K., Miettinen, K., Słowiński, R. (eds) Multiobjective Optimization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88908-3_13

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