A computer engineering benchmark application for multiobjective optimizers. Application of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms

Among the various benchmark problems designed to compare and eval-uate the performance of multiobjective optimizers, there is a lack of real-world applications that are commonly accepted and, even more im-portant, are easy to use by different research groups. The main reason is, in our opinion, the high effort required to re-implement or adapt the corresponding programs. This chapter addresses this problem by presenting a demanding packet processor application with a platform and programming language independent interface. The text-based interface has two advantages: it al-lows (i) to distribute the application as a binary executable pre-compiled for different platforms, and (ii) to easily couple the application with ar-bitrary optimization methods without any modifications on the appli-cation side. Furthermore, the design space exploration application pre-sented here is a complex optimization problem that is representative for many other computer engineering applications. For these reasons, it can serve as a computer engineering benchmark application for multiobjec-tive optimizers. The program can be downloaded together with different multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and further benchmark problems fro