Title
Combining Multiobjective Optimization With Differential Evolution to Solve Constrained Optimization Problems
Abstract
During the past decade, solving constrained optimization problems with evolutionary algorithms has received considerable attention among researchers and practitioners. Cai and Wang's method (abbreviated as CW method) is a recent constrained optimization evolutionary algorithm proposed by the authors. However, its main shortcoming is that a trial-and-error process has to be used to choose suitable parameters. To overcome the above shortcoming, this paper proposes an improved version of the CW method, called CMODE, which combines multiobjective optimization with differential evolution to deal with constrained optimization problems. Like its predecessor CW, the comparison of individuals in CMODE is also based on multiobjective optimization. In CMODE, however, differential evolution serves as the search engine. In addition, a novel infeasible solution replacement mechanism based on multiobjective optimization is proposed, with the purpose of guiding the population toward promising solutions and the feasible region simultaneously. The performance of CMODE is evaluated on 24 benchmark test functions. It is shown empirically that CMODE is capable of producing highly competitive results compared with some other state-of-the-art approaches in the community of constrained evolutionary optimization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TEVC.2010.2093582
IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
differential evolution,predecessor cw,solve constrained optimization problems,optimization evolutionary algorithm,benchmark test function,main shortcoming,evolutionary optimization,evolutionary algorithm,cw method,combining multiobjective optimization,optimization problem,multiobjective optimization,evolutionary computing,vectors,benchmark testing,constrained optimization,pareto optimization,evolutionary computation,search engine
Population,Evolutionary algorithm,Multi-objective optimization,Feasible region,Artificial intelligence,Benchmark (computing),Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary computation,Algorithm,Differential evolution,Machine learning,Mathematics,Constrained optimization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
1
1089-778X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
95
2.32
24
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Wang159625.79
Zixing Cai2152566.96