(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12) Bamporiki, Toussaint; Bekker, James F.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Industrial Engineering.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents the development of an optimisation suite for a commercial, discrete-event simulation software package. It is demonstrated in
this work that the capabilities of the simulation software are limited in the context of stochastic multi-objective optimisation problems and can, thus, be improved using existing knowledge in the literature. The suite developed
in this work utilises, therefore, modern and more effective techniques from the literature to tackle stochastic multi-objective optimisation problems.
Its purpose is that of being a third-party multi-objective optimisation solver that can be integrated with the commercial discrete-event simulation software in order to assist it in its limitations. The suite is validated using
well-known problems in the literature and the relevance of the solution approach proposed in this thesis is demonstrated.