Computational procedures for multiobjective drug discovery problems.

Abstract

<p>The left flowchart of the figure explains <i>a posteriori</i> decision-making method. A generating method is applied to yield a Pareto front of the MOO problem. For instance, the Pareto front for a two objective optimization problem is shown as the red curve. Some additional requirements are applied to make a decision for selecting a desired drug target from the candidate targets of the Pareto front. The green block diagram of the figure explains <i>a priori</i> decision-making design that the drug target discovery problem is formulated as a fuzzy multiobjective optimization problem. The decision-making conditions, such as a membership function for each objective, are included into the problem, and then a preference-based method is applied to obtain the desired drug target.</p