IND-NIMBUS

for sale for non-academic use

Interactive Multiobjective Optimization System

  • for interactive decision support
  • can solve problems with several conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints
  • can be used to analyse interrelationships between different objectives
  • same ideology as in WWW-NIMBUS
  • more information on NIMBUS brochure
  • demo available. Please contact nimbus@mit.jyu.fi

Features

  • for different operating systems
  • tested with several industrial problems
  • can be connected with different simulator or modelling tools (e.g. Matlab®, BALAS© and GAMS)
  • several underlying single-objective optimization methods (e.g. proximal bundle method, genetic algorithm and other global methods, such as LGO)

Further information

  • Miettinen K., Mäkelä M.M and Männikkö T., Optimal Control of Continuous Casting by Nondifferentiable Multiobjective Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications 11, 177-194, 1998
  • Miettinen K., Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
  • Miettinen K. and Mäkelä M.M., Interactive Multiobjective Optimization System WWW-NIMBUS on the Internet, Computers & Operations Research 27, 709-723, 2000.
  • Hämäläinen J., Miettinen K., Tarvainen P., Toivanen J., Interactive Solution Approach to a Multiobjective Optimization Problem in Paper Machine Headbox Design, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 116(2), 265-281, 2003
  • Hakanen J., Miettinen K., Mäkelä M.M., Manninen J., On Interactive Multiobjective Optimization with NIMBUS in Chemical Process Design, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 13(2-3), 125-134, 2005
  • Hakanen J., Miettinen K. and Mäkelä M.M., On Interactive Multiobjective Optimization with NIMBUS in Chemical Process Design, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 13(2-3), 125-134, 2005.
  • Heikkola E., Miettinen K. and Nieminen P., Multiobjective Optimization of an Ultrasonic Transducer using NIMBUS, Ultrasonics 44(4), 368-380, 2006.
  • Miettinen K., Mäkelä M.M. Synchronous Approach in Interactive Multiobjective Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research 170/3, 909-922, 2006.
  • Hakanen J., Kawajiri Y., Miettinen K., Biegler L.T., Interactive Multi-Objective Optimization for Simulated Moving Bed Processes, Control and Cybernetics 36(2), 282-320, 2007.
  • Miettinen K., Using Interactive Multiobjective Optimization in Continuous Casting of Steel, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 22(5), 585-593, 2007
  • Ruotsalainen H., Boman E., Miettinen K., Tervo J., Nonlinear Interactive Multiobjective Optimization Method for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning with Boltzmann Transport Equation, Contemporary Engineering Sciences, 2(9), 391-422, 2009
  • Ruotsalainen H., Miettinen K., Palmgren J.-E., Lahtinen T., Interactive Multiobjective Optimization for Anatomy based Three-Dimensional HDR Brachytherapy, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55(16), 841-858, 2010.
  • Eskelinen P., Miettinen K., Klamroth K. and Hakanen J., Pareto Navigator for Interactive Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, OR Spectrum, 32, 211-227, 2010
  • Laukkanen T., Tveit T.-M., Ojalehto V., Miettinen K., Fogelholm C.-J., An Interactive Multi-Objective Approach to Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 34(6), 943-952, 2010