?Engineering Optimization
Special issue on
Multiobjective Metaheuristics for Multidisciplinary Engineering
Applications
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Multiobjective optimization arises in many real-world engineering
applications, in which several optimization criteria conflict with each
other. Since no single solution can optimize all the objectives
simultaneously, metaheuristics are designed to find a set of solutions
that help engineers to choose the optimal trade-off according to their
needs. Besides, solving real-world problems faces metaheuristic
algorithms to additional challenging tasks, such as high computational
requirements, hardly constrained, high dimensionality, etc. These
challenges have to be addressed properly in order to provide these kind
of problems with high quality solutions. Multiobjective optimization has
therefore attracted growing attention and become one of the hottest
research topics in the area of the metaheuristics.
This special issue of Engineering Optimization invites submissions that
cover (but are not limited to):
- Novel uses of multiobjective metaheuristics in the fields of
- software engineering,
- telecommunications,
- bioinformatics,
- economics and finance,
- scheduling,
- cutting and packing,
- etc.
- Extensions of existing approaches to tackle engineering problems.
- Hybrid multiobjective optimization.
- Problems with increasing number of dimensions (large scale).
- Multiobjectivization: approaching single objective optimization
problems with multiobjective metaheuristics.
- Rigorous comparisons across techniques.
- Real-world problems.
Prospective authors are encouraged to provide the results with
confidence by using the appropriate statistical tests (ANOVA, Wilcoxon,
etc.).
Important dates
Submission deadline : 7th January, 2011
First round of reviews completed: 1st April, 2011
Major revisions : 3rd June, 2011
Minor revisions : 8th July, 2011
Final acceptance : 29th July, 2011
Expected publication date : by the end of 2011
Information for authors
- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/geno for details of the layout,
referencing style, etc.
(2009 Journal Citation Reports, Impact Factor: 0.966)
- http://mstar.lcc.uma.es/geno
Online submission
- The manuscripts have to be submitted online at the Engineering
Optimization
Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/geno).
- New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site,
submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
- It is important that the authors make sure to answer *Yes* to the
question
regarding the special issue submission and clearly label the submission for
the *Special Issue on Multiobjective Metaheuristics for Multidisciplinary
Engineering Applications* in the text box provided. Authors are also asked
to notify their submission by email to the Guest Editors.
Guest Editors
Francisco Luna, University of Málaga, Spain ([log in to unmask])
Pedro Isasi, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain ([log in to unmask])
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