Mechanism of 'crowd' in evolutionary MAS for multiobjective optimisation

This work presents a new evolutionary approach to the search for a global solution (in the Pareto sense) to the multiobjective optirnisation problem. The novelty of the method proposed consists in the application of an evolutionary multi-agent system (EMAS) instead of classical evolutionary algorithms. Decentralisation of the evolutionary process in EMAS allows for intensive exploration of the search space, and the introduced mechanism of 'crowd' allows for effective approximation of the whole Pareto frontier. In the chapter the technique is described and preliminary experimental results are reported.