TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper seeks to describe an approach to multi‐objective optimization problems (MOOPs) based on game theory (GT) and to provide a comparison with the more standard Pareto approach on a real design problem.Design/methodology/approach– The GT is first briefly presented, then a possible recasting of MOOPs in terms of GT is described, where players from GT are associated with single objectives and strategies to the choice of degrees of freedom. A comparison with the Pareto approach is performed on the optimized design of a superconducting synchronous generator.Findings– It was shown that the GT can be applied to the optimized design of real world devices, with results that present a different viewpoint on the problem, yet with device performance comparable with those obtained by standard approaches.Research limitations/implications– Only the Nash approach to non‐cooperative games has been applied; the conditions for the solution found using GT to belong to the Pareto front have not been fully explored.Practical implications– Designers and engineers interested in optimal design are presented with a new design technique able to get a balance among conflicting partial objectives, that can also be used to select among different possible designs obtained in other ways (e.g. using the Pareto front approach).Originality/value– The paper demonstrates the possibility of using GT in the design of real world electromagnetic devices, with reference to the optimal shape design of a high temperature superconducting single‐phase synchronous generator.
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
SN  - 0332-1649
DO  - 10.1108/03321640810878252
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03321640810878252
AU  - Cioffi M.
AU  - Di Barba P.
AU  - Formisano A.
AU  - Martone R.
ED  - Sławomir Wiak
ED  - Andrzej Krawczyk
ED  - Ivo Doležel
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Pareto optima and Nash equilibria: An effective approach to the shape design in electromagnetics
T2  - COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 845
EP  - 854
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -