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Platemo: a matlab platform for evolutionary multi-objective optimization [educational forum]

Tian, Ye, Cheng, Ran, Zhang, Xingyi, Jin, Yaochu·2017·IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Abstract

Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multi-objective optimization problems. However, there lacks an upto-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly benchmark existing algorithms and for practitioners to apply selected algorithms to solve their real-world problems. The demand of such a common tool becomes even more urgent, when the source code of many proposed algorithms has not been made publicly available. To address these issues, we have developed a MATLAB platform for evolutionary multi-objective optimization in this paper, called PlatEMO, which includes more than 50 multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and more than 100 multi-objective test problems, along with several widely used performance indicators. With a user-friendly graphical user interface, PlatEMO enables users to easily compare several evolutionary algorithms at one time and collect statistical results in Excel or LaTeX files. More importantly, PlatEMO is completely open source, such that users are able to develop new algorithms on the basis of it. This paper introduces the main features of PlatEMO and illustrates how to use it for performing comparative experiments, embedding new algorithms, creating new test problems, and developing performance indicators. Source code of PlatEMO is now available at: http://bimk.ahu.edu.cn/index.php?s=/Index/Software/index.html.

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Authors
Tian, Y., Cheng, R., Zhang, X., & Jin, Y.
Affiliations
  • Anhui University (CN)
  • University of Birmingham (GB)
  • University of Surrey (GB)
Venue
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Published
2017-11
Volume
12
Issue
4
Pages
73-87
ISSN
1556-603X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2764251381
Cited by
2,777
References
100
Citations by year
2026: 369 · 2025: 565 · 2024: 494 · 2023: 415 · 2022: 319 · 2021: 240 · 2020: 182 · 2019: 123 · 2018: 63 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
FWCI
75.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (publishedVersion)
  • PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
Keywords
multi-objective optimization, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, benchmarking, performance indicators, open-source platform, MATLAB, algorithm comparison, graphical user interface

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