In this paper, we propose a modified differential evolution (DE) based algorithm for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). The proposed algorithm, called multi-objective DE with dynamic selection mecha...
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In this paper, we propose a modified differential evolution (DE) based algorithm for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). The proposed algorithm, called multi-objective DE with dynamic selection mechanism (DSM), i.e., MODE-DSM, modifies the general DE mutation operation to produce a population at each generation. To determine and evaluate a better spread of the non-dominated solution, a DSM with a new cluster degree measure is developed. The DSM is also used to select diverse non-dominated solutions. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated against seventeen bi-objective and two tri-objective benchmark test problems. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves better convergence to the Pareto-optimal front as well as better diversity on the final non-dominated solutions than the other five multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). It suggests that the proposed algorithm is promising in dealing with MOPs. The ability of MODE-DSM with small population and the sensitivity of MODE-DSM have also been experimentally investigated in this paper.
This study develops an intelligent non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (GA), called INSGA herein, which includes a non-dominated sorting, crowded distance sorting, binary tournament selection, intelligent crossove...
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This study develops an intelligent non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (GA), called INSGA herein, which includes a non-dominated sorting, crowded distance sorting, binary tournament selection, intelligent crossover and non-uniform mutation operators, for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOOPs). This work adopts Goldberg's notion of non-dominated sorting and Deb's crowded distance sorting in the proposed MOGA to achieve solutions with good diversity-preservation and uniform spread on the approximated Pareto front. In addition, the chromosomes of offspring are generated based on an intelligent crossover operator using a fractional factorial design to select good genes from parents intelligently and achieve the goals of fast convergence and high numerical accuracy. To further improve the fine turning capabilities of the presented MOGA, a non-uniform mutation operator is also applied. A typical mutation approach is to create a random number and then add it to corresponding original value. Performance evaluation of the INSGA is examined by applying it to a variety of unconstrained and constrained multi-objectiveoptimization functions. Moreover, two engineering design problems, which include a two-bar truss design and a welded beam design, are studied by the proposed INSGA. Results include the estimated Pareto-optimal front of non-dominated solutions.
The authors of this article are interested in characterization of efficient solutions for special classes of problems. These classes consider semi-strong E-convexity of involved functions. Sufficient and necessary con...
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The authors of this article are interested in characterization of efficient solutions for special classes of problems. These classes consider semi-strong E-convexity of involved functions. Sufficient and necessary conditions for a feasible solution to be an efficient or properly efficient solution are obtained.
multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are very common in practice. To solve MOPs, many kinds of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are proposed. However, different MOEAs have different performances...
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multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are very common in practice. To solve MOPs, many kinds of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are proposed. However, different MOEAs have different performances for different MOPs. Therefore, it is a time-consuming task to choose a suitable MOEA for a given problem. To pursue a competitive performance for various kinds of MOPs, in this paper, we propose a framework named hyper multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (HMOEA). In this framework, more than one MOEAs are employed, which is more adaptive to different problems. In HMOEA, the population will be randomly divided into several groups. In each group, a selected MOEA will be implemented. Therefore in the framework, the number of groups is equal to the number of the employed MOEAs. The size of each group, namely the size of sub-population in each group, is adjusted according to the corresponding MOEA's performance. If a MOEA performs well, its corresponding group will have a large size group, which means the MOEA obtains more computational resources. On the contrary, if a MOEA has a poor performance in current generation, its corresponding group will obtain only a few individuals. Although a MOEA does not perform very well in current generation, the framework will not abandon this MOEA, but provide it a group that has predefined small size. The reason is that an involvement of different MOEAs will increase the diversity of algorithms in the hyper framework, which is helpful for HMOEA to avoid local optima and also can help HMOEA be adaptive to different phases in the whole optimization process. To compare MOEAs' performances, coverage rate (CR) metric is used to evaluate the quality of MOEA and therefore decides the size of group for each MOEA. In numerical experiments, ZDT benchmarks are employed to test the proposed hyper framework. Several classic MOEAs are also used in comparisons. According to the comparison results, HMOEA can achieve very competitive
Algorithm recommendation based on meta-learning was studied previously. The research on the meta-features extraction, which is a key for the success of recommendation, is lacking for multi-objectiveoptimization probl...
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Algorithm recommendation based on meta-learning was studied previously. The research on the meta-features extraction, which is a key for the success of recommendation, is lacking for multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). This paper proposes four sets of meta-features to characterize MOPs. In addition, the algorithm recommendation model based on meta-learning is extended to the field of multi-objectiveoptimization. To evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the extracted meta-features, 29 MOPs benchmark functions with different dimensions and two real-world MOPs are employed for comprehensive comparison. Experimental results show that the proposed meta-features in this paper can fully characterize MOPs and are empirically efficient for algorithm recommendation.
A multi-objectiveoptimization problem is an area concerned an optimization problem involving more than one objective function to be optimized simultaneously. Several techniques have been proposed to solve multi-Objec...
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(纸本)9783319265322;9783319265315
A multi-objectiveoptimization problem is an area concerned an optimization problem involving more than one objective function to be optimized simultaneously. Several techniques have been proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problems. The two most famous algorithms are: NSGA-II and MOEA/D. Harmony Search is relatively a new heuristic evolutionary algorithm that has successfully proven to solve single objectiveoptimizationproblems. In this paper, we hybridized two well-known multi-objectiveoptimization evolutionary algorithms: NSGA-II and MOEA/D with Harmony Search. We studied the efficiency of the proposed novel algorithms to solve multi-objective optimization problems. To evaluate our work, we used well-known datasets: ZDT, DTLZ and CEC2009. We evaluate the algorithm performance using Inverted Generational Distance (IGD). The results showed that the proposed algorithms outperform in solving problems with multiple local fronts in terms of IGD as compared to the original ones (i.e., NSGA-II and MOEA/D).
A novel strength Pareto gravitational search algorithm (SPGSA) is proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problems. This SPGSA algorithm utilizes the strength Pareto concept to assign the fitness values for age...
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A novel strength Pareto gravitational search algorithm (SPGSA) is proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problems. This SPGSA algorithm utilizes the strength Pareto concept to assign the fitness values for agents and uses a fine-grained elitism selection mechanism to keep the population diversity. Furthermore, the recombination operators are modeled in this approach to decrease the possibility of trapping in local optima. Experiments are conducted on a series of benchmark problems that are characterized by difficulties in local optimality, non-uniformity, and nonconvexity. The results show that the proposed SPGSA algorithm performs better in comparison with other related works. On the other hand, the effectiveness of two subtle means added to the GSA are verified, i.e. the fine-grained elitism selection and the use of SBX and PMO operators. Simulation results show that these measures not only improve the convergence ability of original GSA, but also preserve the population diversity adequately, which enables the SPGSA algorithm to have an excellent ability that keeps a desirable balance between the exploitation and exploration so as to accelerate the convergence speed to the true Pareto-optimal front.
Differential Evolutionary (DE) is a simple, fast and robust evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). This paper is to introduce a modified differential evolutionary algorithm (MDE) to s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424441990
Differential Evolutionary (DE) is a simple, fast and robust evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). This paper is to introduce a modified differential evolutionary algorithm (MDE) to solve MOPs. There are some different points between MDE and traditional DE: individual mutation and its selection strategy;M DE allows infeasible solutions of population to participate in mutation process, and mutation strategy of individuals adapt to a modified updating scheme of particle velocity in PSO. The fast nondominated sorting and ranking selection scheme of NSGA-II proposed by Deb is incorporated into individual's selection process. We finally obtain a set of global optimal solutions (gbest). Simulated experiments show that the obtained solutions present good uniformity of diversity, and they are close to the true frontier of Pareto. Also, the convergence of solutions obtained is satisfactory.
In the real world, there exists a special category of multi-objective optimization problems with more than 1000 decision variables. However, only a few decision variables play a crucial role in optimizing the objectiv...
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In the real world, there exists a special category of multi-objective optimization problems with more than 1000 decision variables. However, only a few decision variables play a crucial role in optimizing the objective functions. Such problems are defined as sparse large-scale multi-objective optimization problems (SLSMOPs). Due to the difficulty in effectively identifying the non-zero positions of decision variables, traditional evolutionary optimization algorithms suffer from slow convergence speed and poor convergence effect, which means it is unable to efficiently obtain the Pareto optimal solution set. To address this challenge, the Impact Factor Assisted Algorithm (IFA) is proposed, which adopts a novel initial population strategy to generate sparse populations. Meanwhile, the impact factor of each decision variable is calculated, serving as a key basis for measuring the importance of each decision variable. During the algorithm's operation, the impact factors are iteratively updated to rationally group decision variables and guide population evolution. This approach can accurately identify the positions of non-zero decision variables. The experimental results on eight benchmark and real-world problems indicate that the algorithm outperforms several existing sparse large-scale multi-objectiveoptimization algorithms (SLSMOEAs).
In this study, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOIPSO) algorithm is proposed to address complex optimizationproblems, including real-world engineering challenges. The algorithm retains the basic conver...
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In this study, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOIPSO) algorithm is proposed to address complex optimizationproblems, including real-world engineering challenges. The algorithm retains the basic convergence mechanism of particle swarm optimization (PSO) as its core, while innovatively combining the fast non-dominated sorting technique to effectively evaluate and approximate the Pareto optimal solution set. To enhance the diversity and generalization of the solution set, the crowding distance mechanism is introduced, ensuring a good balance between multiple optimizationobjectives and a wider coverage of the solution space. Additionally, an acceleration factor based on trigonometric functions and an adaptive Gaussian mutation strategy are incorporated, improving the exploration ability of the particles in the search space and facilitating their movement towards the global optimal solution more effectively. The performance of the algorithm is verified using the multi-modal multi-objective benchmark function set provided by CEC2020, and comparisons are made with five advanced multi-objective metaheuristics. The MOIPSO algorithm is also applied to solve the design problem of rail transit upper cover foundation pit, further demonstrating the practical effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The results show that MOIPSO not only performs well in multi-objective function testing but also proves highly competitive in solving real-world engineering problems. Note that the source codes of MOGWO are publicly available at https://***/matlabcentral/fileexchange/177404-moipso-optimization-engineering-problem.
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