Global Optimization Group
- Keywords: Optimization, global optimizaton, multi-objective optimization, parallel computing, high-performance computing, data analysis and visualization
The research group develops algorithms for global and multiobjective optimization and their parallel versions for highperformance computers, applies optimization to solve practical problems in engineering, science, business and medicine.
Research group activities
Global optimization is the search for the minimum of a function when there may be many local minima and most of them are not useful for a decision maker, only the global minimum matters. Differently from local optimization where optimality conditions may be used to show that the optimization problem is solved, in global optimization local information about the solutions is not enough and different solution strategies must be used to search for the global minimum. Global optimization problems are computationally expensive and difficult to solve. When computing power of usual computers is not enough to solve such problems, high-performance computers and clusters of computers are used. Therefore, parallel versions of optimization algorithms are developed and applied to solve large practical problems.
Proposal
- optimization of technological processes, engineering constructions, etc.;
- implementation of software for optimization, multidimensional data analysis and visualization;
- parallelization of algorithms.
Meet our team
Team members
Prof. Dr. Julius Žilinskas
Prof. Habil Dr. Antanas Žilinskas
Dr. Algirdas Lančinskas
Dr. Gražina Gimbutienė
Dr. Remigijus Paulavičius
PhD students
Albertas Gimbutas
Vaidas Jusevičius
Rima Kriauzienė
Natalija Puzanskaja
Linas Stripinis
Research outcomes
Recent papers published in Electrochimica Acta (IF 4.798), PLOS One (IF 2.806), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (IF 2.784), Computers & Operations Research (IF 2.6) and other top-ranked journals.
Various awards including the best paper award of Journal of Global Optimization, top papers recognition of Journal of Global Optimization and Optimization Letters.
Members of various boards and committees: managing board of EUROPT - EURO working group on continuous optimization; editorial boards of international journals; programme committees of international conferences; project evaluation panels including Horizon 2020, COST open call, European Science Foundation, Eurostars; award committees including the jury of the award for the best papers of European Journal of Operations Research.
Recent monographs published by Springer:
- P. M. Pardalos, A. Žilinskas, J. Žilinskas (2017) Non-Convex Multi-Objective Optimization. Springer, ISBN 978-3-319- 61005-4.
- R. Paulavičius, J. Žilinskas (2014) Simplicial Global Optimization. Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-9092-0.
- G. Dzemyda, O. Kurasova, J. Žilinskas (2013) Multidimensional Data Visualization: Methods and Applications. Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-0235-1.
- A. Zhigljavsky, A. Žilinskas (2008) Stochastic Global Optimization. Springer, 978-0-387-74022-5.
Contacts
Prof. Dr. Julius Žilinskas
Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies
Vilnius University
Phone: +370 5 210 9304
More about the institute: http://mii.lt/en
Department for Research
and Innovation
Vilnius University
Phone: +370 5 268 7006
More information: https://www.vu.lt/verslui/
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