On the normal boundary intersection method for generation of efficient front

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the problem of finding a representative sample of Pareto-optimal points in multi-objective optimization. The Normal Boundary Intersection algorithm is a scalarization scheme for generating a set of evenly spaced Efficient solutions. A drawback of this algorithm is that Pareto-optimality of solutions is not guaranteed. The contributions of this paper are two-fold. First, it presents alternate formulation of this algorithms, such that (weak) Pareto-optimality of solutions is guaranteed. This improvement makes these algorithm theoretically equivalent to other classical algorithms (like weighted-sum or ε-constraint methods), without losing its ability to generate a set of evenly spaced Efficient solutions. Second, an algorithm is presented so as to know beforehand about certain sub-problems whose solutions are not Pareto-optimal and thus not wasting computational effort to solve them. The relationship of the new algorithm with weighted-sum and goal programming method is also presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science - ICCS 2007 - 7th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Italia
Pages310-317
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783540725831
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: 27 May 200730 May 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4487 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period27/05/0730/05/07

Keywords

  • Computationally efficient algorithm
  • Efficient front generation
  • Multi-objective optimization

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