Including preferences into a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm to deal with many-objective engineering optimization problems

In this paper, we introduce a new preference relation based on a reference point approach. This relation offers an easy approach to integrate decision maker’s preferences into a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) without mod- ifying its basic structure. Besides finding the optimal solution...

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Autores: ANTONIO LOPEZ JAIMES, CARLOS ARTEMIO COELLO COELLO
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Repositorio:Concentración de Recursos de Información Científica y Académica, UAM Cuajimalpa
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ilitia.cua.uam.mx:123456789/17
Acceso en línea:http://ilitia.cua.uam.mx:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/cti/7
Computación Evolutiva
Optimización Multiobjetivo
Métodos de Optimización Interactiva
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Sumario:In this paper, we introduce a new preference relation based on a reference point approach. This relation offers an easy approach to integrate decision maker’s preferences into a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) without mod- ifying its basic structure. Besides finding the optimal solution of the achievement scalarizing function, the new preference relation allows the decision maker to find a set of solutions around that optimal solution. Then, a MOEA equipped with the proposed preference relation can be integrated into an interactive optimization method. One of the main advantages of the new method is that setting its parameters is an intuitive task to the decision maker. The other advantage is that, since our preference relation induces a finer order on vectors of objective space than that achieved by the Pareto dominance relation, it is appropriate to cope with problems having a high number of objectives.