Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms on complex networks

  • Authors:
  • Michael Kirley;Robert Stewart

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • EMO'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Evolutionary multi-criterion optimization
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Spatially structured populations have been used in evolutionary computation for many years. Somewhat surprisingly, in the multiobjective optimization domain, very few spatial models have been proposed. In this paper, we introduce a new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm on complex networks. Here, the individuals in the evolving population are mapped onto the nodes of alternative complex networks - regular, small-world, scale-free and random. A selection regime based on a non-dominance rating and a crowding mechanism guides the evolutionary trajectory. Our model can be seen as an extension of the standard cellular evolutionary algorithm. However, the dynamical behaviour of the evolving population is constrained by the particular network architecture. An important contribution of this paper is the detailed analysis of the impact that the structural properties of the network - node degree distribution, characteristic path length and clustering coefficient - have on the behaviour of the evolutionary algorithm using benchmark bi-objective problems.