Paper: An Effective Ensemble-Based Method for Creating On-the-Fly Surrogate Fitness Functions for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms - SYNASC 2013

This paper was prepared for the SYNASC 2013 conference and it is related to my current research project that has the general aim of enhancing currently available Evolutionary Computation methods employed for the multi-objective optimization of problems that rely on a very time-intensive fitness evaluation functions. Here is the abstract of the article:

The task of designing electrical drives is a multi-objective optimization problem (MOOP) that remains very slow even when using state-of-the-art approaches like particle swarm optimization and evolutionary algorithms because the fitness function used to assess the quality of a proposed design is based on time-intensive finite element (FE) simulations. One straightforward solution is to replace the original FE-based fitness function with a much faster-to-evaluate surrogate. In our particular case each optimization scenario poses rather unique challenges (i.e., goals and constraints) and the surrogate models need to be constructed on-the-fly, automatically, during the run of the evolutionary algorithm. In the present research, using three industrial MOOPs, we investigated several approaches for creating such surrogate models and discovered that a strategy that uses ensembles of multi-layer perceptron neural networks and Pareto-trimmed training sets is able to produce very high-quality surrogate models in a relatively short time interval.

You can download a preliminary version of the paper by clicking here or from my Downloads box (On the Performance of Master-Slave Parallelization Methods for MOEAs - ICAISC 2013.pdf). The same preliminary draft of the document can be previewed at the bottom of this post. The original publication is available at the IEEE Xplore website.

For citations please use the following BibTeX reference:

@INPROCEEDINGS{Zuavoianu2013SYNASC,
  author = {Alexandru-Ciprian Z\u{a}voianu and Edwin Lughofer and Gerd Bramerdorfer and Wolfgang Amrhein and Erich Peter Klement},
  title = {An Effective Ensemble-Based Method for Creating On-the-Fly Surrogate Fitness Functions for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2013)},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {235-248},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
}