Peter John Fleming is a Professor of Industrial Systems and Control in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the

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, and till June 2012 he was the director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Control and Systems Engineering. He works in the field of control and systems engineering and is known for his work on evolutionary computation applied to systems engineering. Fleming is Editor-in-Chief of the ''International Journal of Systems Science''.

Research

Fleming's primary area of research involves the development of

evolutionary algorithm In computational intelligence (CI), an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm. An EA uses mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reproduct ...

s, including genetic algorithm for

multi-objective optimization Multi-objective optimization (also known as multi-objective programming, vector optimization, multicriteria optimization, multiattribute optimization or Pareto optimization) is an area of multiple criteria decision making that is concerned with ...

. He also works in the area of control & systems engineering. He has authored about 400 research publications, including six books. His research interests have led to the development of close links with a variety of industries in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, power generation, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. Two of his most cited articles are: *''Genetic Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization: Formulation, Discussion and Generalization'', with Carlos M. Fonseca, in Genetic Algorithm: Proceedings of the fifth international conference, San Mareo, CA, July 1993. *''An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms in Multiobjective Optimization'', with Carlos M. Fonseca, Evolutionary Computation,

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, 1995. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2005, a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control since 2009, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology, and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.

Selected books

*A. M. Zalzala and P. J. Fleming, (Ed.) ''Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems'',

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, London (1997). *Mo Jamshidi, Renato A. Krohling, Leandro dos S. Coelho, and Peter J. Fleming, ''Robust Control Systems with Genetic Algorithms'', CRC Press, 2002. *Carlos M. Fonseca, Peter J. Fleming, Eckart Zitzler, and Kalyanmoy, ''Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization'',

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, 2003.

References

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