1. Ensemble Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Based on Voting Mechanism.
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Qiu, Wenbo, Zhu, Jianghan, Wu, Guohua, Chen, Huangke, Pedrycz, Witold, and Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam
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MATHEMATICAL optimization , *EVOLUTIONARY algorithms , *VOTING , *REWARD (Psychology) , *EVOLUTIONARY computation , *HEURISTIC algorithms - Abstract
Sorting solutions play a key role in using evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to solve many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs). Generally, different solution-sorting methods possess different advantages in dealing with distinct MaOPs. Focusing on this characteristic, this article proposes a general voting-mechanism-based ensemble framework (VMEF), where different solution-sorting methods can be integrated and work cooperatively to select promising solutions in a more robust manner. In addition, a strategy is designed to calculate the contribution of each solution-sorting method and then the total votes are adaptively allocated to different solution-sorting methods according to their contribution. Solution-sorting methods that make more contribution to the optimization process are rewarded with more votes and the solution-sorting methods with poor contribution will be punished in a period of time, which offers a good feedback to the optimization process. Finally, to test the performance of VMEF, extensive experiments are conducted in which VMEF is compared with five state-of-the-art peer many-objective EAs, including NSGA-III, SPEA/R, hpaEA, BiGE, and grid-based evolutionary algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the overall performance of VMEF is significantly better than that of these comparative algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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