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Abstract: Decomposition has been the mainstream approach in the classic mathematical programming for multi-objective optimization and multi-criterion decision-making. However, it was not properly ...

Abstract: The generation and updating of solutions, e.g., crossover and mutation, of many existing evolutionary algorithms directly operate on decision variables. The operators are very time consuming ...

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