Comparison of cooperative, multiobjective cooperative and classical evolutionary algorithms for global supply chain optimisation

This paper discusses global optimisation from a business perspective in the context of the supply chain operations. A two-silo supply chain was built for experimentation and three approaches were used for global optimisation: a classical evolutionary approach, a cooperative coevolutionary approach and a cooperative coevolutionary approach with non-dominated partner selection. The second approach produced higher quality solutions due to its use of communication between silos.