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Multiobjective Optimization

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Many important topics in multiobjective optimization and decision making have been studied in this book so far. In this chapter, we wish to discuss some new trends and challenges which the field is facing. For brevity, we here concentrate on three main issues: new problem areas in which multiobjective optimization can be of use, new procedures and algorithms to make efficient and useful applications of multiobjective optimization tools and, finally, new interesting and practically usable optimality concepts. Some research has already been started and some such topics are also mentioned here to encourage further research. Some other topics are just ideas and deserve further attention in the near future.

Reviewed by: Jörg Fliege, University of Southampton, UK; Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, UK; Jürgen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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  1. Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (Agora), FI-40014, Finland

    Kaisa Miettinen

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, PIN 208 016, India

    Kalyanmoy Deb

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Johannes Jahn

  4. Institute of Control & Computation Engineering, Faculty of Electronics & Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, ul. Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland

    Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

  5. Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Koji Shimoyama

  6. Department of Business Administration, University of Vienna, Brünnerstrasse 72, 1210, Wien, Austria

    Rudolf Vetschera

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Miettinen, K., Deb, K., Jahn, J., Ogryczak, W., Shimoyama, K., Vetschera, R. (2008). Future Challenges. 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_16

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