Preferences and their application in evolutionary multiobjectiveoptimization

  • Authors:
  • D. Cvetkovic;I. C. Parmee

  • Affiliations:
  • Plymouth Eng. Design Center, Univ. of Plymouth;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The paper describes a new preference method and its use in multiobjective optimization. These preferences are developed with a goal to reduce the cognitive overload associated with the relative importance of a certain criterion within a multiobjective design environment involving large numbers of objectives. Their successful integration with several genetic-algorithm-based design search and optimization techniques (weighted sums, weighted Pareto, weighted co-evolutionary methods, and weighted scenarios) are described and theoretical results relating to complexity and sensitivity of the algorithm are presented and discussed. Its usefulness was demonstrated in a real-world project of conceptual airframe design