CSIT School Seminar: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation Prof. Juergen Branke University of Warwick Date and time: 11.30 - 12.30, Friday 22 November, 2013 Venue: RMIT University, Building 10, Level 8, Room 3 (10.08.03) Register your attendance on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/687265981285713/ Abstract Many practical optimization problems require the consideration of multiple, conflicting objectives. In such cases, usually no single optimal solution exists. Instead, there is a set of so-called efficient or Pareto-optimal solutions with different trade-offs. Evolutionary algorithms, i.e., heuristics inspired by natural evolution, have gained increasing popularity for such multi-objective problems. Since they work on a population of solutions, they can be used to simultaneously search for a well-distributed set of Pareto-optimal solutions in a single run. This provides the decision maker with a set of alternatives to choose from. This talk will give an introduction to evolutionary multiobjective optimisation, and then discuss why and how the decision maker's preferences should be incorporated already during the optimisation. A number of different ways to incorporate user preferences are presented, including some recent approaches that learn the user preferences from pairwise comparisons during the run. About the speaker Juergen Branke is Professor of Operational Research and Systems and Head of Operational Research and Management Sciences at the University of Warwick, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2000 and has been an active researcher in the area of nature-inspired optimization since 1994. He has published over 130 articles in international journals and conferences on various topics including multiobjective optimization, handling of uncertainty in optimization, dynamically changing optimization problems, and the design of complex systems. Professor Branke is Associate Editor of the Evolutionary Computation Journal and Area Editor of the Journal of Heuristics. For further information, see URL: http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/juergen-branke/ Please note that Prof. Juergen Branke is visiting the ECML group on 21 - 22 November. Let us know if you are interested in talking to him. Seminar Organisation Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Lawrence Cavedon, the seminar co-ordinator, lawrence.cavedon@rmit.edu.au. Follow the School on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RMITComputerScienceandIT CSIT School Seminar Series 2013: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seminars/ Add the CSIT Events Google calendar: rmit.edu.au_qavandka1upp4redk5bfrdbelg@group.calendar.google.com School home page: http://www.rmit.edu.au/compsci