Title
MOPC/D: A new probability collectives algorithm for multiobjective optimisation
Abstract
Decomposition strategies in Multiobjective optimisation (MOO) are known to be superior to other approaches on a wide variety of problems. Probability Collectives (PC) is a recent distribution-centric optimisation framework that has origins in game-theory and statistical physics. Here, we present a new Probability Collectives MOO algorithm, MOPC/D, based on a decomposition strategy that exploits the search operators which arise naturally from the use of a probabilistic Gaussian mixture model formulation. Evaluation of this approach, using the 2-and 3- objective unconstrained problems from the CEC2009 benchmark suite, found MOPC/D to perform competitively with the state of the art (across these problems it has the best mean rank and rank standard deviation of 14 algorithms in the CEC2009 competition, e.g. above MOEA/D), and significantly outperform the (only) previously published MOO algorithm in the PC framework. We conclude that the performance of MOPC/D shows considerable promise, and suggest a number of lines for further research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/MCDM.2013.6595439
Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gaussian processes,game theory,probability,search problems,CEC2009 benchmark suite,MOPC/D,PC framework,decomposition strategy,distribution-centric optimisation framework,game-theory,multiobjective optimisation,probabilistic Gaussian mixture model formulation,probability collectives MOO algorithm,search operators,second-objective unconstrained problems,statistical physics,third objective unconstrained problems
Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Algorithm,Operator (computer programming),Game theory,Artificial intelligence,Gaussian process,Probabilistic logic,Standard deviation,Mixture model,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2160-3448
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Morgan130.72
Antony Waldock2194.25
David W. Corne32161152.00