Optimization-based Domain Reduction in Guaranteed Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

Paulen, Radoslav; Villanueva, Mario E.; Chachuat, Benoît

doi:10.3182/20130904-3-fr-2041.00057

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“…Such complex geometries make the use of traditional methods impractical. For a comprehensive review about the techniques of domain-reduction in mathematics and optimisation problems we refer the reader to Puranik and Sahinidis (2017) and Caprara and Locatelli (2010) and some examples such as Paulen et al (2013) and for the packing optimisation problems literature see Martello and Toth (1990) and Carlier et al (2007).…”

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Pareto-like sequential sampling heuristic for global optimisation

Shaqfa

Beyer

2021

Soft Comput

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In this paper, we propose a simple global optimisation algorithm inspired by Pareto’s principle. This algorithm samples most of its solutions within prominent search domains and is equipped with a self-adaptive mechanism to control the dynamic tightening of the prominent domains while the greediness of the algorithm increases over time (iterations). Unlike traditional metaheuristics, the proposed method has no direct mutation- or crossover-like operations. It depends solely on the sequential random sampling that can be used in diversification and intensification processes while keeping the information-flow between generations and the structural bias at a minimum. By using a simple topology, the algorithm avoids premature convergence by sampling new solutions every generation. A simple theoretical derivation revealed that the exploration of this approach is unbiased and the rate of the diversification is constant during the runtime. The trade-off balance between the diversification and the intensification is explained theoretically and experimentally. This proposed approach has been benchmarked against standard optimisation problems as well as a selected set of simple and complex engineering applications. We used 26 standard benchmarks with different properties that cover most of the optimisation problems’ nature, three traditional engineering problems, and one real complex engineering problem from the state-of-the-art literature. The algorithm performs well in finding global minima for nonconvex and multimodal functions, especially with high dimensional problems and it was found very competitive in comparison with the recent algorithmic proposals. Moreover, the algorithm outperforms and scales better than recent algorithms when it is benchmarked under a limited number of iterations for the composite CEC2017 problems. The design of this algorithm is kept simple so it can be easily coupled or hybridised with other search paradigms. The code of the algorithm is provided in C++14, Python3.7, and Octave (Matlab).

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