Title
An adaptive memetic framework for multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems: studies on software next release and travelling salesman problems
Abstract
Abstract In this paper, we propose two multi-objective memetic algorithms (MOMAs) using two different adaptive mechanisms to address combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). One mechanism adaptively selects solutions for local search based on the solutions’ convergence toward the Pareto front. The second adaptive mechanism uses the convergence and diversity information of an external set (dominance archive), to guide the selection of promising solutions for local search. In addition, simulated annealing is integrated in this framework as the local refinement process. The multi-objective memetic algorithms with the two adaptive schemes (called uMOMA-SA and aMOMA-SA) are tested on two COPs and compared with some well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Experimental results suggest that uMOMA-SA and aMOMA-SA outperform the other algorithms with which they are compared. The effects of the two adaptive mechanisms are also investigated in the paper. In addition, uMOMA-SA and aMOMA-SA are compared with three single-objective and three multi-objective optimization approaches on software next release problems using real instances mined from bug repositories (Xuan et al. IEEE Trans Softw Eng 38(5):1195–1212, 2012). The results show that these multi-objective optimization approaches perform better than these single-objective ones, in general, and that aMOMA-SA has the best performance among all the approaches compared.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s00500-015-1921-0
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-objective combinatorial optimization,Memetic algorithms,Decomposition-based method,Local search,Adaptation
Memetic algorithm,Convergence (routing),Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Multi-objective optimization,Travelling salesman problem,Artificial intelligence,Metaheuristic,Simulated annealing,Mathematical optimization,Local search (optimization),Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
9
1432-7643
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
44
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinye Cai1635.14
Xin Cheng230.72
Zhun Fan310613.81
Erik Goodman414515.19
Lisong Wang542.09