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Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have achieved effective performance in solving complex data-driven optimization problems. In the Internet of Things environment, the data of many problems are collected and processed in distributed network nodes and cannot be transmitted. As each local node can only access and build surrogate models based on partial data, local models are usually not accurate and even conflicting. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a classifier-ensemble-based surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm (CESAEA) with the following features. First, the local nodes in CESAEA train classifiers as surrogate models based on their own data to classify candidates into several levels according to their fitness quality. The classifiers are less sensitive to the partial and biased data than regression models in local nodes. Second, the central node in CESAEA ensembles …