dc.contributor.author | Everson, Richard M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fieldsend, Jonathan E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Kevin I. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-11T14:23:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.description.abstract | Simulated annealing generalises greedy or elitist search methods by permitting states which are not an improvement over previous solutions, and for single-objective problems these exploratory moves permit escape from local minima. We examine two classes of multi-objective simulated annealing algorithm: those in which a single solution comprises the state and those in which a set of mutually non-dominating solutions form the state. We compare ways of determining the `energy' of the state in simulated annealing, including the dominated volume and we relate the greedy versions of these annealers (zero computational temperature) to well-established multi-objective optimisation algorithms.
Empirical tests on the DTLZ test problems show that (a) a single solution state is often more efficient than a set-based state; and (b) that exploratory algorithms are out-performed by their greedy counterparts. These results lead to an examination of the role of local fronts. Problems for which the Pareto front cannot be located via a sequence of infinitesimal perturbations are defined to be noninfinitesimally greedy searchable. We present examples of non-infinitesimally greedy searchable test problems, which are nonetheless searchable using finite perturbations, but which may be adjusted to be arbitrarily hard even with large finite perturbations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/11713 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.subject | Simulated annealing | en_GB |
dc.subject | greedy search | en_GB |
dc.subject | multi-objective | en_GB |
dc.subject | optimisation | en_GB |
dc.subject | test problems | en_GB |
dc.title | Simulated annealing and greedy search for multi-objective optimisation | en_GB |
dc.type | Technical Report | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-07-11T14:23:08Z | |
exeter.confidential | false | |
dc.description | Copyright © 2009 University of Exeter | en_GB |