Optimization in the Darkness of Uncertainty
Speaker: Professor Kate Smith-Miles (University of Melbourne)
How do we find the optimal solution for a constrained multiobjective optimisation problem when we have no analytical expression for the objective functions, and very limited function evaluations within the huge search space due to the expense of measuring the objective functions? Calculus can’t help you, and trial and error is not an option! This talk will describe a common practical optimisation problem found in many industrial settings with these challenges, and introduce some methods for expensive black-box optimisation. Finally, we will address the question of how best to evaluate the performance of such methods by generating new test instances with controllable characteristics.
About Statistics, modelling and operations research seminars
Students, staff and visitors to UQ are welcome to attend our regular seminars.
The events are jointly run by our Operations research and Statistics and probability research groups.
The Statistics, modelling and operations research (SMOR) Seminar series seeks to celebrate and disseminate research and developments across the broad spectrum of quantitative sciences. The SMOR series provides a platform for communication of both theoretical and practical developments, as well as interdisciplinary topics relating to applied mathematics and statistics.