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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2007, Vol. 8 Issue (12): 1905-1911    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2007.A1905
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
Multiobjective extremal optimization with applications to engineering design
CHEN Min-rong, LU Yong-zai, YANG Gen-ke
Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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Abstract  In this paper, we extend a novel unconstrained multiobjective optimization algorithm, so-called multiobjective extremal optimization (MOEO), to solve the constrained multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). The proposed approach is validated by three constrained benchmark problems and successfully applied to handling three multiobjective engineering design problems reported in literature. Simulation results indicate that the proposed approach is highly competitive with three state-of-the-art multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, i.e., NSGA-II, SPEA2 and PAES. Thus MOEO can be considered a good alternative to solve constrained multiobjective optimization problems.

Key wordsMultiobjective optimization      Extremal optimization (EO)      Engineering design     
Received: 20 June 2007     
CLC:  TP18  
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CHEN Min-rong, LU Yong-zai, YANG Gen-ke. Multiobjective extremal optimization with applications to engineering design. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2007, 8(12): 1905-1911.

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