DMMOGSA: Diversity-enhanced and memory-based multi-objective gravitational search algorithm

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is an important research topic in both science and engineering. This paper proposes a diversity-enhanced and memory-based multi-objective gravitational search algorithm (DMMOGSA). We. combine the memory of the best states of individual particles and their population in their evolution paths and the gravitational rules to construct a new search strategy. Under this strategy, the position and mass states of each particle are updated based on the memory associated with it and the current states of all particles in the current population in terms of their gravitational forces on it A novel diversity-enhancement mechanism is also employed to control the velocity, of each particle for traveling to a new position. Experiments were conducted on 12 well-known benchmark functions, and for each function the results of DMMOGSA were compared with those of SPEA2, NSGA-II and MOPSO. Our results show that DMMOGSA can reduce the effect of premature convergence and achieve more reliable performance on most of the tested cases. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.