Peter John Fleming (also referred to as Peter J. Fleming or Peter G. Fleming) is an American engineer and scientist. He is a professor of Industrial Systems and Control in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, and until June 2012, he served as the director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Control and Systems Engineering.

Working in the field of control and systems engineering, he is known for his work on evolutionary computation applied to systems engineering, with research involving multi-objective optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and control systems. Fleming serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Systems Science.^[1] His honors include receiving the Sir Harold Hartley Medal from the Institute of Measurement and Control in 1997, as well as being elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2009.

Fleming's primary area of research involves the development of evolutionary algorithms, including genetic algorithms for multi-objective optimization, and he also works in the area of control & systems engineering. 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. He has authored about 400 research publications, including six books. Two of his most cited articles, both co-authored with Carlos M. Fonseca, are "Genetic Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization: Formulation, Discussion and Generalization" (published in Genetic Algorithm: Proceedings of the fifth international conference, San Mareo, CA, July 1993) and "An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms in Multiobjective Optimization" (Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press, 1995).

A. M. Zalzala and P. J. Fleming edited Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems, published by The Institution of Electrical Engineers in London (1997). Mo Jamshidi, Renato A. Krohling, Leandro dos S. Coelho, and Peter J. Fleming authored Robust Control Systems with Genetic Algorithms, published by CRC Press in 2002 (ISBN 978-0-8493-1251-9). Carlos M. Fonseca, Peter J. Fleming, Eckart Zitzler, and Kalyanmoy authored Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, published by Springer in 2003 (ISBN 978-3-540-01869-8).

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