A new algorithm based on grey wolf optimizer and shuffled frog leaping algorithm to solve the multi-objective optimization problems

Abstract Multi-objective optimization is many important since most of the real world problems are in multi-objective category. Looking at the literature, the algorithms proposed for the solution of multi-objective problems have increased in recent years, but there is no a convenient approach for all kind of problems. Therefore, researchers aim to contribute to the literature by offering new approaches. In this study, an algorithm based on grey wolf optimizer (GWO) with memeplex structure of the shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA), which is named as multi-objective shuffled GWO (MOSG), is proposed to solve the multi-objective optimization problems. Additionally, some modifications are applied on the proposed algorithm to improve the performance from different angles. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with the performance of six multi-objective algorithms on a benchmark set consist of 36 problems. The experimental results are presented with four different comparison metrics and statistical tests. According to the results, it can easily be said that the proposed algorithm is generally successful to solve the multi-objective problems and has better or competitive results.