Multi-objective system design optimization via PPA and a fuzzy method

Abstract

System design deals with various challenges oftargets and resources, such as reliability, availability,maintainability, cost, weight, volume, and configuration.This paper deals with the multi-objective system avail-ability and cost optimization of parallel–series systems byresorting to the multi-objective strawberry algorithm alsoknown as the Plant Propagation Algorithm or PPA and afuzzy method. It is the first implementation of this opti-mization algorithm in the literature for this kind of problemto generate the Pareto Front. The fuzzy method allowshelping the decision maker to select the best compromisesolution. A numerical case study involving 10 subsystemshighlights the applicability of the proposed approach