Combining multiobjective and single-objective genetic algorithms in heterogeneous island model

Abstract

The majority of multiobjective genetic algorithms is computationally expensive, therefore they often need to be parallelized before they can be used to solve practical tasks. Parallelization of multiobjective genetic algorithms is a relatively studied area, but no clearly winning approach has appeared yet. In this paper we present a novel parallel hybrid algorithm which combines multiobjective and single-objective genetic algorithms. We show that this algorithm can be successfully used to solve multiobjective optimization problems while outperforming more traditional parallel versions of multiobjective genetic algorithms.