ECJers,

I am working with a 3-objective problem where some objectives are to be
maximized and some are to be minimized with NSGA-II and SPEA2.  However I
set my parameters, however, all three appear to be maximized.

I have tried this:

multi.fitness.0.maximize=true
multi.fitness.1.maximize=false
multi.fitness.2.maximize=false


And this:

pop.subpop.0.species.fitness.0.maximize=true
pop.subpop.0.species.fitness.1.maximize=false
pop.subpop.0.species.fitness.2.maximize=false


The result still shows pairs like this in the Pareto front, which shows
that objective 1 is being maximized:

Objective 0 Objective 1 Objective 2
0.2715239 0.28555658 4.0
403 0.2809572 0.26017603 4.0


I'd like to know if I should hunt for a bug in ECJ, or if I'm setting the
parameters wrong.  Uday told me he observed the same problem some time ago.

For now I'm just converting all my objectives to maximization problems
manually as a workaround (i.e. by taking the reciprocal of the true
fitness).

Siggy

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Ph.D student in Computer Science
George Mason University
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