@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-72062-9_9, author="Ghosh, Abhiroop and Deb, Kalyanmoy and Averill, Ronald and Goodman, Erik", editor="Ishibuchi, Hisao and Zhang, Qingfu and Cheng, Ran and Li, Ke and Li, Hui and Wang, Handing and Zhou, Aimin", title="Combining User Knowledge and Online Innovization for Faster Solution to Multi-objective Design Optimization Problems", booktitle="Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization", year="2021", publisher="Springer International Publishing", address="Cham", pages="102--114", abstract="Real-world optimization problems often come with additional user knowledge that, when accommodated within an algorithm, may produce a faster convergence to acceptable solutions. Modern population-based optimization algorithms, aided by recent advances in AI and machine learning, can also learn and utilize patterns of variables from past iterations to improve convergence in subsequent iterations -- an approach termed innovization. In this paper, we discuss ways to combine user-supplied heuristics and machine-learnable patterns and rule sets in developing efficient multi-objective optimization algorithms. Two practical large-scale design problems are chosen to demonstrate the usefulness of integrating human-machine information within a multi-objective optimization in finding similar quality solutions as that obtained by the original algorithm with less computational time.", isbn="978-3-030-72062-9" }