Constraint-Handling in Evolutionary Optimization; Efrén Mezura-Montes (Editor)

Abstract

The use of evolutionary and swarm intelligence algorithms, has become a very popular option to solve complex real-world optimization problems. However, in their original versions, these algorithms lack a mechanism to handle the constraints of the problem i.e. they were designed to deal with unconstrained search spaces. Therefore, the design of constraint-handling mechanism is nowadays considered a research area within natureinspired computation for optimization.