Acceptability of a Decision Maker to Handle Multi-objective Optimization on Design Space

We introduce the acceptability of a decision maker to handle evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) on design space, while most of EMO research tries to find many solutions on an objective space and passes them to a decision maker. Unlike this conventional EMO approaches, our approach decides maker's model with the concept of acceptability and introduces it in EMO search. Especially, this approach works well when qualitative factors, such as the decision maker's experience and knowledge on a task, are a part of evaluations. Acceptability functions for each of objectives are aggregated firstly, and the aggregated acceptability forms contours on an objective space and is mapped on a design space. The acceptability contours on a design space can narrow down the area of solutions. We could find better solutions in our experiments than the conventional approach of searching solutions on an objective space.