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Most existing evolutionary approaches to multiobjective optimization aim at finding an appropriate set of compromise solutions, ideally a subset of the Pareto-optimal set. That means they are solving a set problem where the search space consists of all possible solution sets. Taking this perspective, multiobjective evolutionary algorithms can be regarded as hill-climbers on solution sets: the population is one element of the set search space and selection as well as variation implement a specific type of set mutation operator. Therefore, one may ask whether a ‘real’ evolutionary algorithm on solution sets can have advantages over the classical single-population approach. This paper investigates this issue; it presents a multi-population multiobjective optimization framework and demonstrates its usefulness on several test problems and a sensor network application.
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Bader, J., Brockhoff, D., Welten, S., Zitzler, E. (2009). On Using Populations of Sets in Multiobjective Optimization. In: Ehrgott, M., Fonseca, C.M., Gandibleux, X., Hao, JK., Sevaux, M. (eds) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. EMO 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01020-0_15
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