Evaluated Preference Genetic Algorithm and its Engineering Applications

This paper proposes a novel multiobjective genetic algorithm (MOGA), Evaluated Preference Genetic Algorithm (EPGA), for efficiently solving engineering multiobjective optimization problems. EPGA utilizes a preferred objective vector to perform a fast multiobjective ranking schema within a low computation complexity O(MNlogN) where N is the size of genetic population and M is the number of objectives. For verifying the proposed algorithms, this paper studies two engineering problems in which multiple mutual-conflicted objectives should be considered. According to the experimental results, the proposed EPGA can efficiently explore the Pareto front and provide very good solution capabilities for the engineering optimization problems.