Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminars

Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminar
Speaker: Kalyanmoy Deb (http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb.htm)
Host: Sara Silva (KDBIO/INESC-ID)
Venue: IST Alameda, Sala Qa1.3 (Torre Sul) ***NOTE SPECIAL VENUE!***
Date: Monday, April 4th, 2011 ***NOTE SPECIAL DATE!***
Time: 12:00 ***NOTE SPECIAL TIME!***
Lunch will be provided

Title: Innovization: Revealing Innovative Design Principles through
Multi-Objective Optimization

Abstract:

Designing a component, process or a control system to achieve minimum or maximum of a single objective (or goal) often results in a single optimum solution describing the shape, dimensions, process or strategy of solving the task. Although such an optimized solution may already provide a new and innovative way of achieving the best objective value, it is almost never the case that practitioners are solely interested in a single objective. Moreover, a single optimum solution does not often provide adequate information to *learn* much about the problem, a matter which is ideally desired in engineering and scientific problem-solving tasks. In this seminar, we shall discuss an "innovization" procedure involving a multi-objective optimization algorithm for finding a set of trade-off optimal solutions. An investigation of such
solutions is then expected to reveal useful design principles common to high-performing solutions. A number of interesting engineering case studies will be discussed to demonstrate how useful and innovative design principles can be deciphered by considering two or three-objective optimization problems. Such design innovations are difficult to achieve by any other means and the proposed systematic procedure should find a wide-spread applicability in the coming years.

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Bio: Kalyanmoy Deb is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and is the director of
Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL). He is the recipient of
the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences
for the year 2005. He is a fellow of Indian National Science Academy
(INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National
Academy of Sciences (IASc), and International Society of Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC). He has received Fredrick Wilhelm
Bessel Research award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany in
2003. His main research interests are in the area of optimization,
optimal modeling and design and evolutionary algorithms. He has written
two text books on optimization and more than 275 international journal
and conference research papers. He is associated with 17 international
journals. He has pioneered and a leader in the field of evolutionary
multi-objective optimization. More information about his research can be
found from http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb.htm.