A multi-population algorithm for multi-objective knapsack problem

Autor: Imen Ben Mansour, Matthieu Basseur, Frédéric Saubion
Přispěvatelé: École Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique [Manouba] (ENSI), Université de la Manouba [Tunisie] (UMA), Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche en Informatique d'Angers (LERIA), Université d'Angers (UA)
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Applied Soft Computing
Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 2018, 70, pp.814-825. ⟨10.1016/j.asoc.2018.06.024⟩
ISSN: 1568-4946
Popis: International audience; Local search algorithms constitute a growing area of interest to approximate the Pareto sets of multi-objective combinatorial problem instances. In this study, we focus on the multi-objective knapsack problem and its optimization thanks to a multi-population based cooperative framework. The proposed approach, Wϵ-CMOLS, uses a multi-objective local search algorithm based on quality indicator (IBMOLS), initially presented by Basseur and Burke in 2007, and integrates it into a cooperative model. The idea is to optimize the overall quality of a Pareto set approximation by evolving several sub-populations in parallel, each population executing a different configuration of IBMOLS. The algorithm uses a weighted version of the epsilon quality indicator by means of different weight vectors. The populations cooperate through sharing a non-dominated archive, which stores the best compromises found during the optimization process, and which is used to re-initialize regularly each sub-population. Wϵ-CMOLS is compared with state-of-the-art algorithms such as IBEA, NSGA-II and SPEA2. Experiments highlight that the use of a cooperative model as well as a weighted indicator to guide the search toward different directions, can lead to interesting results for the multi-objective knapsack problem.
Databáze: OpenAIRE