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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
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            <journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
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        <issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
        
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            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
            
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			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFO1049</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2015.37</article-id>
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				<article-title>Synchronous R-NSGA-II: An Extended Preference-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Filatovas</surname>
						<given-names>Ernestas</given-names>
					</name><email xlink:href="mailto:ernest.filatov@gmail.com">ernest.filatov@gmail.com</email>
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				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Kurasova</surname>
						<given-names>Olga</given-names>
					</name><email xlink:href="mailto:olga.kurasova@mii.vu.lt">olga.kurasova@mii.vu.lt</email>
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				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Sindhya</surname>
						<given-names>Karthik</given-names>
					</name><email xlink:href="mailto:karthik.sindhya@jyu.fi">karthik.sindhya@jyu.fi</email>
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					Institute of Informatics and Mathematics, Vilnius University, Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania
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					Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland</aff>
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					<label>*</label>
					Corresponding author.
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			<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>33</fpage><lpage>50</lpage>
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       <date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year>2014</year></date>
       <date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>02</month><year>2015</year></date>
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				<copyright-statement>Vilnius University</copyright-statement>
				<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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			<abstract>
				<label>Abstract</label>
				<p>Classical evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms aim at finding an approximation of the entire set of Pareto optimal solutions. By considering the preferences of a decision maker within evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms, it is possible to focus the search only on those parts of the Pareto front that satisfy his/her preferences. In this paper, an extended preference-based evolutionary algorithm has been proposed for solving multi-objective optimization problems. Here, concepts from an interactive synchronous NIMBUS method are borrowed and combined with the R-NSGA-II algorithm. The proposed synchronous R-NSGA-II algorithm uses preference information provided by the decision maker to find only desirable solutions satisfying his/her preferences on the Pareto front. Several scalarizing functions are used simultaneously so the several sets of solutions are obtained from the same preference information. In this paper, the experimental-comparative investigation of the proposed synchronous R-NSGA-II and original R-NSGA-II has been carried out. The results obtained are promising.</p>
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				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>interactive multi-objective optimization</kwd>
				<kwd>evolutionary multi-objective optimization</kwd>
				<kwd>preference-based  evolutionary algorithms</kwd>
				<kwd>scalarizing function</kwd>
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