Sustainable development is a problem-solving method that simultaneously accounts for the
economic, environmental, and social impacts of actions. Decision-makers have recently …

The manufacturing industry is faced with the challenge to constantly improve its processes,
eg, due to lower profit margins, more strict environmental policies and increased societal …

The present paper describes a study on the feasibility of coupling rigorous dynamic
modelling (DM) and its extended boundaries through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with an …

Problems in chemical engineering, like most real-world optimization problems, typically,
have several conflicting performance criteria or objectives and they often are …

In eco-design, the integration of environmental aspects into the earliest stage of design is
considered with the aim of reducing adverse environmental impacts throughout a product's …

In many decision making problems, a decision maker needs computer support in finding a
good compromise between multiple conflicting objectives that need to be optimized …

The forecast of the scale of highway network is of great importance in the planning of
regional highway network. This paper is to seek a hybrid method to improve the accuracy …

The genetic algorithm (GA) is a widely used optimization algorithm that mimics the process
of natural selection to search and find useful solutions among sets of generations. In GA …

In applied engineering, there are tremendous optimization problems which are
multiobjective problems. Meanwhile, a number of them require large amount of time to …

Multiobjective optimization started as a mathematical discipline, is gradually becoming a
multidisciplinary field of study, finding its place in operational research, multiple criteria …