Title
Effects of 1-Greedy -Metric-Selection on Innumerably Large Pareto Fronts
Abstract
Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms (EMOA) using per- formance indicators for the selection of individuals have turned out to be a successful technique for multi-objective problems. Especially, the selec- tion based on theS-metric, as implemented in the SMS-EMOA, seems to be effective. A special feature of this EMOA is the greedy (μ +1 ) se- lection. Based on a pathological example for a population of size two and a discrete Pareto front it has been proven that a (μ + 1)- (or 1-greedy) EMOA may fail in finding a population maximizing the S-metric. This work investigates the performance of (μ+1)-EMOA with small fixed-size populations on Pareto fronts of innumerable size. We prove that an opti- mal distribution of points can always be achieved on linear Pareto fronts. Empirical studies support the conjecture that this also holds for convex and concave Pareto fronts, but not for continuous shapes in general. Furthermore, the pathological example is generalized to a continuous objective space and it is demonstrated that also (μ + k)-EMOA are not able to robustly detect the globally optimal distribution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-01020-0_7
EMO
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.34
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicola Beume188048.60
Boris Naujoks270447.78
Preuss Mike393381.70
Günter Rudolph421948.59
Tobias Wagner5391.95