Abstract
Most of the existing dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (DMOEAs) are effective, which focuses on searching for the approximation of Pareto-optimal front (POF) with well-distributed in handling dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs). Nevertheless, in real-world scenarios, the decision maker (DM) may be only interested in a portion of the corresponding POF (i.e., the region of interest) for different instances, rather than the whole POF. Consequently, a novel DMOEA based decomposition and preference (DACP) is proposed, which incorporates the preference of DM into the dynamic search process and tracks a subset of Pareto-optimal set (POS) approximation with respect to the region of interest (ROI). Due to the presence of dynamics, the ROI, which is defined in which DM gives both the preference point and the neighborhood size, may be changing with time-varying DMOPs. Consequently, our algorithm moves the well-distributed reference points, which are located in the neighborhood range, to around the preference point to lead the evolution of the whole population. When a change occurs, a novel strategy is performed for responding to the current change. Particularly, the population will be reinitialized according to a promising direction obtained by letting a few solutions evolve independently for a short time. Comprehensive experiments show that this approach is very competitivecompared with state-of-the-art methods.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 175-190 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Information Sciences |
Volume | 571 |
Early online date | 20 Apr 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the research projects: the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61772178, 61876164, Xiangtan university graduate research and innovation project under Grant No. XDCX2019B057, The MOEA KeyLaboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing, the Scienceand Technology Plan Project of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2016TP1020),the Provinces and Cities Joint Foundation Project (Grant No. 2017JJ4001),Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province of China(Grant No. 2017B010111005), the Hunan province science and technologyproject funds (Grant No. 2018TP1036)..
Keywords
- Changing preference point
- Dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (DMOEAs)
- Reference points
- The region of interest (ROI)