Handling multiple objectives with biogeography-based optimization

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a new evolutionary optimization method inspired by biogeography. In this paper, BBO is extended to a multi-objective optimization, and a biogeography-based multi-objective optimization (BBMO) is introduced, which uses the cluster attribute of islands to naturally decompose the problem. The proposed algorithm makes use of nondominated sorting approach to improve the convergence ability effciently. It also combines the crowding distance to guarantee the diversity of Pareto optimal solutions. We compare the BBMO with two representative state-of-the-art evolutionary multi-objective optimization methods, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) and archive-based micro genetic algorithm (AMGA) in terms of three metrics. Simulation results indicate that in most cases, the proposed BBMO is able to find much better spread of solutions and converge faster to true Pareto optimal fronts than NSGA-II and AMGA do.     

A multi-objective artificial physics optimization algorithm based on ranks of individuals

This paper proposes a multi-objective artificial physics optimization algorithm based on individuals’ ranks. Using a Pareto sorting based technique and incorporating the concept of neighborhood crowding degree, evolutionary individuals in the search space are evaluated at first. Then each individual is assigned a unique serial number in terms of its performance, which affects the mass of the individual. Thereby, the population evolves towards the direction of the Pareto-optimal front. Synchronously, the presented approach has good diversity, such that the population is spread evenly on the Pareto front. Results of simulation on a number of difficult test problems show that the proposed algorithm, with less evolutionary generations, is able to find a better spread of solutions and better convergence near the true Pareto-optimal front compared to classical multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (NSGA, SPEA, MOPSO) and to simple multi-objective artificial physics optimization algorithm.     

面向多目标优化的适应度共享免疫克隆算法

多目标优化的日标在于使得解集能够快速的逼近真实Pareto前沿.针对解的分布性问题,以免疫克隆算法为框架,引入适应度共享策略,提出了一种新的具有良好分布性保持的多目标优化进化算法;算法建立外部群体以保存非支配解,以Pareto优和共亨适应度作为外部群体更新与激活抗体选择的双重标准.为了增强算法对决策空间的开发能力,引入...     

多目标自适应和声搜索算法

提出了一种利用Pareto支配来求解多目标优化问题的自适应和声搜索算法（MOSAHS）。该算法利用外部种群来保存非支配解,为了保持非支配解的多样性,提出了一种基于拥挤度的删除策略,这个策略能较好地度量个体的拥挤程度。用5个标准测试函数对其进行测试,并与其他多目标优化算法相比较。实验结果表明,与其他的算法相比,提出的算法在逼近性和均匀性两方面都有很好的表现,是一种有效的多目标和声搜索算法。     

A self-organized speciation based multi-objective particle swarm optimizer for multimodal multi-objective problems

This paper proposes a self-organized speciation based multi-objective particle swarm optimizer (SS-MOPSO) to locate multiple Pareto optimal solutions for solving multimodal multi-objective problems. In the proposed method, the speciation strategy is used to form stable niches and these niches/subpopulations are optimized to search and maintain Pareto-optimal solutions in parallel. Moreover, a self-organized mechanism is proposed to improve the efficiency of the species formulation as well as the performance of the algorithm. To maintain the diversity of the solutions in both the decision and objective spaces, SS-MOPSO is incorporated with the non-dominated sorting scheme and special crowding distance techniques. The performance of SS-MOPSO is compared with a number of the state-of-the-art multi-objective optimization algorithms on fourteen test problems. Moreover, the proposed SS-MOSPO is also employed to solve a real-life problem. The experimental results suggest that the proposed algorithm is able to solve the multimodal multi-objective problems effectively and shows superior performance by finding more and better distributed Pareto solutions.     

一种新的多目标粒子群优化算法

论文提出了一种基于拥挤度和动态惯性权重聚合的多目标粒子群优化算法,该算法采用Pareto支配关系来更新粒子的个体最优值,用外部存档策略保存搜索过程中发现的非支配解;采用适应值拥挤度裁剪归档中的非支配解,并从归档中的稀松区域随机选取精英作为粒子的全局最优位置,以保持解的多样性;采用动态惯性权重聚合的方法以使算法尽可能地逼近各目标的最优解。仿真结果表明,该算法性能较好,能很好地求解多目标优化问题。     

Tourism Route Recommendation Based on A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Using Two-Stage Decomposition and Pareto Layering

Tourism route planning is widely applied in the smart tourism field. The Pareto-optimal front obtained by the traditional multi-objective evolutionary algorithm exhibits long tails, sharp peaks and disconnected regions problems, which leads to uneven distribution and weak diversity of optimization solutions of tourism routes. Inspired by these limitations, we propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for tourism route recommendation (MOTRR) with two-stage and Pareto layering based on decomposition. The method decomposes the multi-objective problem into several subproblems, and improves the distribution of solutions through a two-stage method. The crowding degree mechanism between extreme and intermediate populations is used in the two-stage method. The neighborhood is determined according to the weight of the subproblem for crossover mutation. Finally, Pareto layering is used to improve the updating efficiency and population diversity of the solution. The two-stage method is combined with the Pareto layering structure, which not only maintains the distribution and diversity of the algorithm, but also avoids the same solutions. Compared with several classical benchmark algorithms, the experimental results demonstrate competitive advantages on five test functions, hypervolume (HV) and inverted generational distance (IGD) metrics. Using the experimental results of real scenic spot datasets from two famous tourism social networking sites with vast amounts of users and large-scale online comments in Beijing, our proposed algorithm shows better distribution. It proves that the tourism routes recommended by our proposed algorithm have better distribution and diversity, so that the recommended routes can better meet the personalized needs of tourists.      

Multi-objective sine-cosine algorithm (MO-SCA) for multi-objective engineering design problems

This paper proposes a novel and an effective multi-objective optimization algorithm named multi-objective sine-cosine algorithm (MO-SCA) which is based on the search technique of sine-cosine algorithm (SCA). MO-SCA employs the elitist non-dominated sorting and crowding distance approach for obtaining different non-domination levels and to preserve the diversity among the optimal set of solutions, respectively. The effectiveness of the method is measured by implementing it on multi-objective benchmark problems that have various characteristics of Pareto front such as convex, non-convex and discrete. This proposed algorithm is also checked for the multi-objective engineering design problems with distinctive features. Furthermore, we show the proposed algorithm effectively generates the Pareto front and is easy to implement and algorithmically simple.

     

记忆增强的动态多目标分解进化算法

现实世界中的一些多目标优化问题经常受动态环境影响而不断发生变化,要求优化算法不断地及时跟踪时变的Pareto 最优解集.提出了一种记忆增强的动态多目标分解进化算法.将动态多目标优化问题分解为若干个动态单目标优化子问题并同时优化这些子问题,以便快速逼近Pareto 最优解集.给出了一个改进的环境变化检测算子,以便更好地检测环境变化.设计了一种基于子问题的串式记忆方法,利用过去类似环境下搜索到的最优解来有效地响应新的环境变化.在8 个标准的测试问题上,将新算法与其他3 种记忆增强的动态进化多目标优化算法进行了实验比较.结果表明,新算法比其他3 种算法具有更快的运行速度、更强的记忆能力与鲁棒性能,并且新算法所获得的解集还具有更好的收敛性与分布性.     

一种自适应多目标离散差分进化算法

提出一种自适应多目标离散差分进化算法。该算法将差分进化引入多目标优化领域,采用一种新的自适应离散差分进化策略增强算法的全局搜索能力,以获得更优的Pareto近似解,并结合Pareto快速分层排序策略和基于聚集密度的按层修剪操作对种群进行更新维护,使解集保持良好的多样性。实例测试和算法比较表明,该算法能有效求解离散域和连续域上不同类型的多目标优化问题,且在收敛性、分布性、稳定性方面均表现较好。     

一种基于膜系统理论的多目标演化算法

提出一种用于求解多目标优化问题的基于膜系统理论的演化算法. 受膜系统理论的功能和处理化合物方式的启发,设计了求解多目标优化问题的演化操作. 此外,在表层膜中,引入了非支配排序和拥挤距离两种机制改善算法的搜索效率. 采用ZDT（Zitzler-Deb-Thiele）和DTLZ（Deb-Thiele-Laumanns-Zitzler）多目标问题对所提算法进行测试,所提算法求得的候选解既能较好地逼近真实Pareto前沿,又能满足非支配解集多样性的要求. 仿真结果表明,所提方法求解多目标优化问题是可行和有效的.     

求解多目标最小生成树的一种新的遗传算法

在改进的非支配排序遗传算法（NSGA-II）的基础上,提出了一种新的基于生成树边集合编码的繁殖算子求解多目标最小生成树问题的遗传算法。通过快速非支配排序法,降低了算法的计算复杂度,引入保存精英策略,扩大采样空间。实验结果表明：对于多目标最小生成树问题,边集合编码具有较好的遗传性和局部性,而且基于此繁殖算子的遗传算法在求解效率和解的质量方面都优于基于PrimRST的遗传算法。     

模糊作业时间的拆卸线平衡Pareto多目标优化

针对实际拆卸作业的复杂性,建立了考虑模糊作业时间的多目标拆卸线平衡问题的数学模型,提出了一种基于Pareto解集的多目标遗传模拟退火算法进行求解。改进了模拟退火操作的Metropolis准则,使其能够求解多目标优化问题。采用拥挤距离评价非劣解的优劣,保留了优秀个体,并通过精英选择策略,将非劣解作为遗传操作的个体,引导算法向最优方向收敛。基于25项拆卸任务算例,通过与现有的单目标人工蜂群算法进行对比,验证了所提算法的有效性和优越性。最后将该算法应用于某打印机拆卸线实例中,求得8种可选平衡方案,实现了求解结果的多样性。     

多目标微粒群优化算法

通过设计一种Pareto解集过滤器,并在此基础上给出多目标优化条件下的微粒群算法群体停滞判断准则,基于该准则提出了一种多目标微粒群优化算法。算法利用Pareto解集过滤器提高了候选解的多样性,并使用图形法将所提算法与经典的多目标优化进化算法在一组标准测试函数上进行了比较,结果表明算法具有更好的搜索效率。     

一种改进的基于pareto解的多目标粒子群算法

研究一种改进的多目标粒子群优化算法,算法采用精英归档策略,利用粒子的个体最优定位,通过Pareto支配关系更新全体粒子最优位置,由档案库中动态提供。根据Pareto支配关系来更新粒子的个体最优位置。使用非劣解目标的密度距离度量非劣解前端的均匀性,通过删除密度距离小的非劣解提高非劣解前端的均匀性。从归档中根据粒子的密度距离大小依照概率选取作为粒子的全局最优位置,以保持解的多样性。标准函数的仿真实验结果表明,所提算法能够获得大量且较均匀的非劣解,快速地收敛于Pareto最优解前端。     

基于粒子记忆体的多目标微粒群算法*

针对多目标微粒群算法(MOPSO)解的多样性分布问题,提出一种基于粒子记忆体的多目标微粒群算法(dp-MOPSO)。dp-MOPSO算法为每个微粒分配一个记忆体,保存寻优过程中搜索到的非支配pbest集,以避免搜索信息的丢失。采用外部存档保存种群搜索到的所有Pareto解,并引入动态邻域的策略从外部存档中选择全局最优解。利用几个典型的多目标测试函数对dp-MOPSO算法的性能进行测试,并与两种著名的多目标进化算法m-DNPSO、SPEA2进行比较。实验结果表明,dp-MOPSO算法可以更好地逼近真实Pareto沿,同时所得Pareto解分布更均匀。     

基于自适应学习的多目标粒子群优化算法

将进化算法应用于某些多目标优化问题时,采用增加种群规模和进化代数的方法往往耗费大量的目标函数计算开销,且达不到提高种群进化效率的目的,为此提出了一种基于自适应学习最优搜索方向的多目标粒子群优化算法。采用自适应惯性权值平衡算法的全局和局部搜索能力,采用聚类排挤方法保持Pareto非支配解集的分布均匀性,使用最近邻学习方法为每个粒子在Pareto非支配解集中寻找一个最优飞行目标来提高其收敛速度并保持粒子群搜索方向的多样性。实验结果表明,提出的算法可在显著地降低函数评估成本的前提下实现快速的搜索,并使粒子群均匀地逼近Pareto最优面。     

一种基于云模型的多目标进化算法

在多目标进化算法的基础上,提出了一种基于云模型的多目标进化算法(CMOEA).算法设计了一种新的变异算子来自适应地调整变异概率,使得算法具有良好的局部搜索能力.算法采用小生境技术,其半径按X条件云发生器非线性动态地调整以便于保持解的多样性,同时动态计算个体的拥挤距离并采用云模型参数来估计个体的拥挤度,逐个删除种群中超出的非劣解以保持解的分布性.将该算法用于多目标0/1背包问题来测试CMOEA的性能,并与目前最流行且有效的多目标进化算法NSGA-II及SPEA2进行了比较.结果表明,CMOEA具有良好的搜索性能,并能很好地维持种群的多样性,快速收敛到Pareto前沿,所获得的Pareto最优解集具有更好的收敛性与分布性.     

二维目标下分布性与收敛性结合的种群维护策略

种群维护是多目标进化算法的重要组成部分。针对传统方法在维护过程中只考虑分布性的情况,提出一种分布性与收敛性结合的种群维护策略,该方法用一种邻近个体间的相对趋近关系来表示其适应值,弥补了单纯Pareto支配关系的“粗糙性”,并用一种可调邻域的方法对种群的密集程度进行控制。将其与NSGA-II和SPEA2进行对比,实验结果表明该算法在有效保持种群分布性的同时,拥有良好的收敛性和速度。     

DAV-MOEA:一种采用动态角度向量支配关系的高维多目标进化算法

现实中不断涌现的高维多目标优化问题对传统的基于Pareto支配的多目标进化算法构成巨大挑战.一些研究者提出了若干改进的支配关系,但仍难以有效地平衡高维多目标进化算法的收敛性和多样性.提出一种动态角度向量支配关系动态地刻画进化种群在高维目标空间的分布状况,以较好地在收敛性与多样性之间取得平衡;另外,提出一种改进的基于Lp...