{"doi":"10.1109/tevc.2007.892759","title":"MOEA/D: A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition","abstract":"Decomposition is a basic strategy in traditional multiobjective optimization. However, it has not yet been widely used in multiobjective evolutionary optimization. This paper proposes a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D). It decomposes a multiobjective optimization problem into a number of scalar optimization subproblems and optimizes them simultaneously. Each subproblem is optimized by only using information from its several neighboring subproblems, which makes MOEA/D have lower computational complexity at each generation than MOGLS and nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II). Experimental results have demonstrated that MOEA/D with simple decomposition methods outperforms or performs similarly to MOGLS and NSGA-II on multiobjective 0-1 knapsack problems and continuous multiobjective optimization problems. It has been shown that MOEA/D using objective normalization can deal with disparately-scaled objectives, and MOEA/D with an advanced decomposition method can generate a set of very evenly distributed solutions for 3-objective test instances. The ability of MOEA/D with small population, the scalability and sensitivity of MOEA/D have also been experimentally investigated in this paper.","journal":"IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation","year":2007,"id":5513,"datarank":15.087254715522604,"base_score":9.148145768383065,"endowment":9.148145768383065,"self_citation_contribution":1.37222186525746,"citation_network_contribution":13.715032850265144,"self_endowment_contribution":1.37222186525746,"citer_contribution":13.715032850265144,"corpus_percentile":92.8,"corpus_rank":1024,"citation_count":9396,"citer_count":179,"citers_with_citation_signal":179,"citers_with_endowment":179,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2007-12-01","authors":[{"id":15834,"name":"Hui Li","orcid":"0000-0002-7879-1792","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":54366,"name":"Qingfu Zhang","orcid":"0000-0003-0786-0671","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":40,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-03-01T18:20:47.508186Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}