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Acknowledgements
The dissertation has been completed at the Department of Business Technology,
Aalto University School of Economics. The work has been performed
under the supervision of Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, Prof. Pekka Korhonen
and Prof. Jyrki Wallenius. I would like to extend heartfelt gratitude
and thanks to my supervisors for their inspiration and support which
motivated me to start working on the dissertation with utmost enthusiasm
and has been the driving force for successfully accomplishing the task.
Their constant support and fruitful discussions encouraged new thoughts
and ideas which were instrumental in executing the work. I consider myself
fortunate to receive the best possible guidance and mentoring from
the leading researchers in the field of Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization
and Multi Criteria Decision Making.
I thank the pre-examiners of this thesis, Prof. Juergen Branke and Prof.
Lothar Thiele for their valuable feedback that helped in improving the dissertation.
I would also thank all my colleagues at the department, in particular,
Antti Saastamoinen, Pekka Malo and Oskar Ahlgren for providing
a friendly work environment. I express my gratitude to the the department
secretaries, Helena Knuuttila, Merja Mäkinen and Jutta Heino for
their unconditional help and support.
I gracefully thank the graduate school on ‘Systems Analysis, Decision
Making and Risk Management’, HSE foundation and the Academy of Finland
for financially supporting this study. I would like to dedicate this thesis
to my parents as I could not have accomplished the task successfully
without their blessings. Finally, I wish to give a special mention to my
wife, Parul, whose love, affection and support kept me rejuvenated even
towards the completion of my dissertation.
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