EVOLVE: A visualization tool for multi-objective optimization featuring linked view of explanatory variables and objective functions

Maki Kubota, Takayuki Itoh, Shigeru Obayashi, Yuriko Takeshima

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Abstract

Multi-objective optimization tools have been applied in various academic and industry fields. It is often difficult to optimize all the objectives since they often cause trade-offs. It is also difficult to figure what kinds of trade-offs actually cause. We think visualization of multi-objective optimization results assists users to intuitively understand the distributions of their solutions. This paper proposes a visualization of explanatory variable and objective function spaces in the separate views, so that users can easily understand their relevancy. Also, our tool features the linkage mechanism between the two views. When a user selects certain ranges of the values by a mouse click operation, the tool highlights all the corresponding individuals. This mechanism is useful for users to narrow down the results. We expect the tool assists the understanding of the behavior of the optimization processes and improvement of the future processes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2014 18th International Conference on Information Visualisation
Subtitle of host publicationVisualisation, BioMedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2014
EditorsEbad Banissi, Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, Francis T. Marchese, Muhammad Sarfraz, Anna Ursyn, Gilles Venturini, Theodor G. Wyeld, Urska Cvek, Marjan Trutschl, Georges Grinstein, Vladimir Geroimenko, Sarah Kenderdine, Sarah Kenderdine, Sarah Kenderdine, Fatma Bouali
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages351-356
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479941032
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Sept 18
Event2014 18th International Conference on Information Visualisation: Visualisation, BioMedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2014 - Paris, France
Duration: 2014 Jul 162014 Jul 18

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
ISSN (Print)1093-9547

Conference

Conference2014 18th International Conference on Information Visualisation: Visualisation, BioMedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period14/7/1614/7/18

Keywords

  • explanatory variable
  • multi-objective optimization
  • objective function
  • parallel coordinate plots
  • scatterplots

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