Abstract
Chaotic maps play an important role in improving evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for avoiding the local optima and speeding up the convergence. However, different chaotic maps in different phases have different effects on EAs. This paper focuses on exploring the effects of chaotic maps and giving comprehensive guidance for improving multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) by series of experiments. NSGA-II algorithm, a representative of MOEAs using the nondominated sorting and elitist strategy, is taken as the framework to study the effect of chaotic maps. Ten chaotic maps are applied in MOEAs in three phases, that is, initial population, crossover, and mutation operator. Multiobjective problems (MOPs) adopted are ZDT series problems to show the generality. Since the scale of some sequences generated by chaotic maps is changed to fit for MOPs, the correctness of scaling transformation of chaotic sequences is proved by measuring the largest Lyapunov exponent. The convergence metric γ and diversity metric Δ are chosen to evaluate the performance of new algorithms with chaos. The results of experiments demonstrate that chaotic maps can improve the performance of MOEAs, especially in solving problems with convex and piecewise Pareto front. In addition, cat map has the best performance in solving problems with local optima.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/924652
Repository Citation
Lu, Hui; Wang, Xiaoteng; Fei, Zongming; and Qiu, Meikang, "The Effects of Using Chaotic Map on Improving the Performance of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms" (2014). Computer Science Faculty Publications. 1.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cs_facpub/1
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, v. 2014, article ID 924652, p. 1-16.
Copyright © 2014 Hui Lu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.