A Survey on Evolutionary Constrained Multiobjective Optimization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 201 - 221
• Main Authors: Liang, Jing, Ban, Xuanxuan, Yu, Kunjie, Qu, Boyang, Qiao, Kangjia, Yue, Caitong, Chen, Ke, Tan, Kay Chen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Benchmark test problems; Benchmark testing; constrained multiobjective optimization; constraint handling; Constraints; Convergence; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolutionary computation; Literature reviews; Multiple objective analysis; Optimization; Pareto optimization; Sociology; Statistics
• ISSN: 1089-778X; 1941-0026
• DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2022.3155533

Handling constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) is extremely challenging, since multiple conflicting objectives subject to various constraints require to be simultaneously optimized. To deal with CMOPs, numerous constrained multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (CMOEAs) have been proposed in recent years, and they have achieved promising performance. However, there has been few literature on the systematic review of the related studies currently. This article provides a comprehensive survey for evolutionary constrained multiobjective optimization. We first review a large number of CMOEAs through categorization and analyze their advantages and drawbacks in each category. Then, we summarize the benchmark test problems and investigate the performance of different constraint handling techniques (CHTs) and different algorithms, followed by some emerging and representative applications of CMOEAs. Finally, we discuss some new challenges and point out some directions of the future research in the field of evolutionary constrained multiobjective optimization.