Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) poses the VNF placement problem under multiple, potentially conflicting objectives, such as Quality of Service (QoS), costs, and resource efficiency. This work treats VNF placement as a many-objective optimization problem (MaOP) and presents two primary contributions: (i) a correlation analysis of state-of-the-art objectives to reduce dimensionality while maintaining representativeness, resulting in…

In this paper, a multiple-objective Metaheuristics study is discussed. Initially, three mono-objective metaheuristics will be explored in order to design and optimize Radio-Frequency integrated inductors. These metaheuristics are: An evolutionary algorithm called The Differential Evolution (DE), An algorithm supported on Newton’s laws of gravity and motion called the Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) and, finally, A…