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1、ATutorialonEvolutionaryMultiobjectiveOptimizationEckartZitzler,MarcoLaumanns,andStefanBleulerSwissFederalInstituteofTechnology(ETH)Zurich,ComputerEngineeringandNetworksLaboratory(TIK),Gloriastrasse35,CH-8092Zurich,Switzerland{zitzler,laumanns,bleuler}@tik.ee.ethz.chAbstract.Multiple,oftenconflictingo
2、bjectivesarisenaturallyinmostreal-worldoptimizationscenarios.Asevolutionaryalgorithmspossessseveralcharacteristicsthataredesirableforthistypeofproblem,thisclassofsearchstrategieshasbeenusedformultiobjectiveoptimizationformorethanadecade.Meanwhileevolutionarymultiobjectiveoptimiza-tionhasbecomeestabl
3、ishedasaseparatesubdisciplinecombiningthefieldsofevolutionarycomputationandclassicalmultiplecriteriadecisionmaking.Thispapergivesanoverviewofevolutionarymultiobjectiveoptimiza-tionwiththefocusonmethodsandtheory.Ontheonehand,basicprin-ciplesofmultiobjectiveoptimizationandevolutionaryalgorithmsareprese
4、nted,andvariousalgorithmicconceptssuchasfitnessassignment,diversitypreservation,andelitismarediscussed.Ontheotherhand,thetutorialincludessomerecenttheoreticalresultsontheperformanceofmultiobjectiveevolutionaryalgorithmsandaddressesthequestionofhowtosimplifytheexchangeofmethodsandapplicationsbymeansof
5、astandardizedinterface.1IntroductionThetermevolutionaryalgorithm(EA)standsforaclassofstochasticoptimiza-tionmethodsthatsimulatetheprocessofnaturalevolution.TheoriginsofEAscanbetracedbacktothelate1950s,andsincethe1970sseveralevolution-arymethodologieshavebeenproposed,mainlygeneticalgorithms,evolution
6、aryprogramming,andevolutionstrategies[1].Alloftheseapproachesoperateonasetofcandidatesolutions.Usingstrongsimplifications,thissetissubsequentlymodifiedbythetwobasicprinciples:selectionandvariation.Whileselectionmimicsthecompetitionforreproductionandresourcesamonglivingbeings,theotherprinciple,variatio
7、n,imitatesthenaturalcapabilityofcreating”new”livingbeingsbymeansofrecombinationandmutation.Althoughtheunderlyingmechanismsaresimple,thesealgorithmshaveproventhemselvesasageneral,robustandpowerfulsearc