Soft Computing Techniques
Week-08 Assignment-08 (Solution)
1. (d). In Non-dominated rank comparison for given two solutions i and j, solution i is preferred to
solution j if Ri < Rj .
2. (a). The crowding distance of a solution in NSGA-II is calculated by measuring the Euclidean distance
between consecutive solutions in the objective space.
3. (b). Solutions with lower crowding distances during selection in NSGA-II are less likely to get selected.
4. (a). NSGA follows Stochastic remainder selection to create mating pool.
5. (d). The strategy of the crowding distance is followed by NSGA-II to make the solution diverse.
6. (a) and (c). The advantages of Vector Optimized Evolution Strategy (VOES) are improved convergence,
i.e. VOES converge faster than traditional ES algorithms, and multi-objective optimization i.e. VOES
can handle multi-objective optimization problems, which is very useful in many real-world applications.
7. 0.3, range is 0.299 to 0.301. We know that
X
wi = 1
i
=⇒ w1 + w2 + w3 = 1
=⇒ 0.2 + 0.5 + w3 = 1
=⇒ w3 = 0.3
8. (c). Using WBGA, F(x) is given by,
F (x) = w1 f1 (x) + w2 f2 (x)
=⇒ F (x) = 0.5(x2 ) + 0.5 −(x − 2)2
=⇒ F (x) = 0.5x2 − 0.5(x − 2)2
9. (a). We will find the functional values of the given individuals x = 1, 2, 3, 4
Individual x Functional value F(x)
1 F (1) = 0.5(1)2 − 0.5(1 − 2)2 =0
2 F (2) = 0.5(2)2 − 0.5(2 − 2)2 =2
3 F (3) = 0.5(3)2 − 0.5(3 − 2)2 =4
4 F (4) = 0.5(4)2 − 0.5(4 − 2)2 =6
Since we have to minimize the given function, so individual x = 1 is selected.
10. (b). Niched-Pareto Genetic Algorithm uses a tournament selection scheme based on Pareto dominance.