A novel opposition-based multi-objective differential evolution algorithm for multi-objective optimization

Abstract

Multiobjective optimization is of increasing importance in various fields and has very broad applications. The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel multiobjective optimization algorithm-opposition-based multi-objective differential evolution algorithm(OMODE). In the paper, OMODE uses the opposition-based population to generate the initial population of points, The important scaling factor is controlled by self-adaptive method. Performance of OMODE is demonstrated with a set of benchmark test functions and Earth-Mars double transfer problem. The results show that OMODE achieves better performance than other methods. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.