Model-based Optimization for Nonlinear, REstricted Production processes
Optimierung von Tragflächenprofilen

MONREP, funded by the German minister for economics (BMWi), is a ZIM project (central innovation SME) is conducted during the time span 2014-2016. Project partners are Cologne University of Applied Sciences, and  divis GmbH, Dortmund

Research area: applied computer science, high-dimensional modelling, expensive computer simulations, optimization, constraings, computational intelligence, evolutionary algorithms.
 
Application areas: optimization of wing profiles, crash simulations and weight optimization in automotive industries.
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More informations about the start of MONREP …

Young author award for MONREP paper by Patrick Koch …

DAAD price for MONREP student researcher Samineh Bagheri …

 

Project members

Samineh Bagheri, M. Sc., TH Köln
Dr. Patrick Koch, TH Köln Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Konen, TH Köln

 

Publications MONREP

2020

Bagheri, Samineh

Self-Adjusting Surrogate-Assisted Optimization Techniques for Expensive Constrained Black Box Problems PhD Thesis

Leiden University and TH Köln, 2020, (PhD thesis, TH Köln dissertation price 2020).

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2019

Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Bäck, Thomas

Solving Optimization Problems with High Conditioning by Means of Online Whitening Proceedings Article

In: Lopez-Ibanez, Manuel (Ed.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2019 (GECCO'19), Prague, pp. 243-244, ACM, 2019.

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2017

Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Bäck, Thomas

Comparing Kriging and Radial Basis Function Surrogates Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 27. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 243-259, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2017.

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Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Allmendinger, Richard; Branke, Jürgen; Deb, Kalyanmoy; Fieldsend, Jonathan; Quagliarella, Domenico; Sindhya, Karthik

Constraint Handling in Efficient Global Optimization Proceedings Article

In: Bosman, Peter A. N. (Ed.): Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2017 (GECCO'17), Berlin, pp. 1, ACM, 2017.

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Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Emmerich, Michael; Bäck, Thomas

Self-adjusting parameter control for surrogate-assisted constrained optimization under limited budgets Journal Article

In: Applied Soft Computing, vol. 61, pp. 377-393, 2017, ISSN: 1568-4946.

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2016

Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Bäck, Thomas

Online Selection of Surrogate Models for Constrained Black-Box Optimization Proceedings Article

In: Jin, Yaochu (Ed.): SSCI'2016, Athens, pp. 1, IEEE, 2016, (**Best Student Paper Award**).

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Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Bäck, Thomas

Equality Constraint Handling for Surrogate-Assisted Constrained Optimization Proceedings Article

In: Tan, Kay Chen (Ed.): WCCI'2016, Vancouver, pp. 1924–1931, IEEE, 2016.

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2015

Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Emmerich, Michael; Bäck, Thomas

Solving the G-problems in less than 500 iterations: Improved efficient constrained optimization by surrogate modeling and adaptive parameter control Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, no. 06/15; arXiv: 1512.09251, 2015, ISSN: 2191-365X, (e-print published at http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09251).

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Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Foussette, Christophe; Krause, Peter; Bäck, Thomas; Koch, Patrick

SACOBRA: Self-Adjusting Constrained Black-Box Optimization with RBF Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 25. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 87-98, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2015, (**Young Author Award**).

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Koch, Patrick; Bagheri, Samineh; Konen, Wolfgang; Foussette, Christophe; Krause, Peter; Bäck, Thomas

A New Repair Method For Constrained Optimization Proceedings Article

In: Jiménez-Laredo, Juan Luis (Ed.): Proceedings of the 17th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'15), 2015.

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Konen, Wolfgang

The rCMA Tutorial: Examples for using CMA-ES in R Technical Report

Research Center CIOP (Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Data Mining) Cologne University of Applied Science, 2015.

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2014

Koch, Patrick; Bagheri, Samineh; Foussette, Christophe; Krause, Peter; Bäck, Thomas; Konen, Wolfgang

Constrained Optimization with a Limited Number of Function Evaluations Proceedings Article

In: Hoffmann, Frank; Hüllermeier, Eyke (Ed.): Proceedings 24. Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 119–134, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2014, (**Young Author Award**).

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