... algorithm: the rank ordering and crowding distance. In order to accelerate the convergence process, a Local Search strategy based on the generation of potential candidates by using Latin Hypercube method is also proposed. Design/methodology/approach The multi-objective optimization shuffled complex...

... of metamodels to make the search biased to select sample points from appropriate metamodels. Furthermore, the corresponding local search strategies are also proposed to enhance the efficiency of the proposed method. In the MMHGO optimizing method, a number of initial sample points are used to construct...