A many-objective population extremal optimization algorithm with an adaptive hybrid mutation operation

MR Chen, GQ Zeng, KD Lu - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Many-objective optimization problems abbreviated as MaOPs with more than three
objectives have attracted increasing interests due to their widely existing in a variety of real …

Dmaoea-εc: Decomposition-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm with the ε-constraint framework

J Li, J Li, PM Pardalos, C Yang - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Real-world problems which involve the optimization of multiple conflicting objectives are
named as multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). This paper mainly deals with the …

Evolutionary many-objective algorithm based on fractional dominance relation and improved objective space decomposition strategy

W Qiu, J Zhu, G Wu, M Fan, PN Suganthan - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
For many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs), the proportion of non-dominated
solutions in a population scales up sharply with the increase in the number of objectives …

A decomposition-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm with adaptive weight vector strategy

X Chen, J Yin, D Yu, X Fan - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Evolutionary multi-objective optimization methods have become increasingly popular in
finding a representative set of Pareto optimal solutions for multi-objective optimization …

Multiobjective optimization using population-based extremal optimization

MR Chen, YZ Lu, G Yang - Neural Computing and Applications, 2008 - Springer
In recent years, a general-purpose local-search heuristic method called Extremal
Optimization (EO) has been successfully applied in some NP-hard combinatorial …

A many-objective evolutionary algorithm with reference points-based strengthened dominance relation

Q Gu, H Chen, L Chen, X Li, NN Xiong - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The main issues for the optimization of many-objective evolutionary are about two aspects:
the balance between convergence and diversity, and increasing the selection pressure …

An angle-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm with shift-based density estimation and sum of objectives

J Zhang, J Cao, F Zhao, Z Chen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the curse of dimensionality, the existing evolutionary algorithms have difficulties in
balancing convergence and diversity in many-objective problems. To address this …

A many-objective optimization algorithm with mutation strategy based on variable classification and elite individual

Z Liang, J Zeng, L Liu, Z Zhu - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
The current many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MaOEAs) generally adopt the mutation
strategies designed for single-objective optimization problems directly. However, these …

Many-objective evolutionary optimization based on reference points

Y Liu, D Gong, X Sun, Y Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Many-objective optimization problems are common in real-world applications, few
evolutionary optimization methods, however, are suitable for solving them up to date due to …

An improved multi-objective population-based extremal optimization algorithm with polynomial mutation

GQ Zeng, J Chen, LM Li, MR Chen, L Wu, YX Dai… - Information …, 2016 - Elsevier
As a recently developed evolutionary algorithm inspired by far-from-equilibrium dynamics of
self-organized criticality, extremal optimization (EO) has been successfully applied to a …