摘要

In this paper, an efficient optimization technique is proposed for constrained optimization problems with interval valued objective function. At first, the significance of interval-valued objective function and the meaning of the interval-valued solution of the proposed problem have been explained with graphical interpretation. Generally, this type of problems has infinitely many compromise solutions. The aim of this approach is to obtain one of such solutions with higher accuracy and lower computational cost. The proposed technique is mainly based on the splitting criterion of the accepted/prescribed search region, calculation of the interval inclusion functions and the selection of subregion depending on the modified interval order relations in the context of the decision makers' point of view. Novel interval oriented constraint satisfaction rules are used for non-interval equality and inequality constraints. Clearly, the proposed technique is nothing but an imitation of well known interval analysis based branch and bound (B & B) optimization approach. The modified multi-section division criterion with some new interval oriented constraint satisfaction rules for non-interval-valued equality and inequality constraints and some novel interval order relations in the context of the decision makers' point of view have been applied to increase the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Finally, the technique is applied for solving some test problems and the results are compared with the same obtained from the existing methods.

  • 出版日期2013-12-1

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