Using an outward selective pressure for improving the search quality of the MOEA/D algorithm

Krzysztof Michalak ()

Computational Optimization and Applications, 2015, vol. 61, issue 3, 607 pages

Abstract: In optimization problems it is often necessary to perform an optimization based on more than one objective. The goal of the multiobjective optimization is usually to find an approximation of the Pareto front which contains solutions that represent the best possible trade-offs between the objectives. In a multiobjective scenario it is important to both improve the solutions in terms of the objectives and to find a wide variety of available options. Evolutionary algorithms are often used for multiobjective optimization because they maintain a population of individuals which directly represent a set of solutions of the optimization problem. multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) is one of the most effective multiobjective algorithms currently used in the literature. This paper investigates several methods which increase the selective pressure to the outside of the Pareto front in the case of the MOEA/D algorithm. Experiments show that by applying greater selective pressure in the outwards direction the quality of results obtained by the algorithm can be increased. The proposed methods were tested on nine test instances with complicated Pareto sets. In the tests the new methods outperformed the original MOEA/D algorithm. Copyright The Author(s) 2015

Keywords: Multiobjective optimization; Evolutionary algorithms; MOEA/D algorithm; Selective pressure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10589-015-9733-9

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