Report of Evolutionary Computation Competition 2017

Abstract

Evolutionary computation competition 2017 was held in December 9, 2017 in conjunction with evolutionary computation symposium 2017. It was confirmed that evolutionary algorithms can discover good designs of the design optimization problem of vehicle structures provided by Mazda motor company. Nine teams participated in the single-objective optimization division and eleven teams in the multiobjective optimization division. Prof. Shinya Watanabe's team from Muroran Institute of Technology won in the single-objective optimization division, Prof. Isao Ono's team from Tokyo Institute of Technology won in the multi-objective optimization division. The industrial use special prize was awarded to Dr. Tomohiro Harada's team from Ritsumeikan University. In the single-objective design optimization division, the groups using evolution strategies found good Pareto-optimal solutions. In the multiobjective optimization division, the groups who found good Pareto-optimal designs studied characteristics of the benchmark problem very much and implemented the most suitable optimization algorithm. Mazda benchmark problem has many severe constraints and thus feasible design space is strictly limited. Some teams used special techniques such as ε constraint method. Current result indicated that balance between search in feasible region and infeasible region may be important for constrained design optimization problems.