Research Article

A Decomposition-Based Unified Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Problems Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Algorithm 2

Personal best selection.
Input: The th particle ; the repository for , ;
  the current operating group .
Output:
 (1) Update personal repository .
 (2) Select the memories in whose leading index
     belong to the as the personal
     best candidates. The number of the candidates is .
 (3) if then Select randomly
   from .
 (4) else Select whose index is a minority
   in from candidates.
 (5) end if