A Unified Model for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization and its Implementation in a General Purpose Software Framework: ParadisEO-MOEO
Abstract
This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying existing approaches is here presented. Based on a fine-grained decomposition and following the main issues of fitness assignment, diversity preservation and elitism, a conceptual global model is proposed and is validated by regarding a number of state-of-the-art algorithms as simple variants of the same structure. The presented model is then incorporated into a general-purpose software framework dedicated to the design and the implementation of evolutionary multiobjective optimization techniques: ParadisEO-MOEO. This package has proven its validity and flexibility by enabling the resolution of many real-world and hard multiobjective optimization problems.
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@article{arxiv.0904.2987,
title = {A Unified Model for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization and its Implementation in a General Purpose Software Framework: ParadisEO-MOEO},
author = {Arnaud Liefooghe and Laetitia Jourdan and El-Ghazali Talbi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2987},
year = {2009}
}