S-metric calculation by considering dominated hypervolume as klee's measure problem

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Beume

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany. nicola.beume@tu-dortmund.de

  • Venue:
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The dominated hypervolume (or S-metric) is a commonly accepted quality measure for comparing approximations of Pareto fronts generated by multi-objective optimizers. Since optimizers exist, namely evolutionary algorithms, that use the S-metric internally several times per iteration, a fast determination of the S-metric value is of essential importance. This work describes how to consider the S-metric as a special case of a more general geometric problem called Klee's measure problem (KMP). For KMP, an algorithm exists with runtime O(n log n + nd/2 log n), for n points of d ≥ 3 dimensions. This complex algorithm is adapted to the special case of calculating the S-metric. Conceptual simplifications realize the algorithm without complex data structures and establish an upper bound of O(nd/2 log n) for the S-metric calculation for d ≥ 3. The performance of the new algorithm is studied in comparison to another state of the art algorithm on a set of academic test functions.