This package, and various subpackages, contain tools for doing multiobjective optimization. In the primary package (ec.multiobjective) are just useful top-level classes. In the subsidiary packages (ec.multiobjective.nsga2 and ec.multiobjective.spea2) are implementations of two popular multiobjective optimization algorithms, NSGA-II and SPEA2, which use these top-level classes. The top-level classes: ec.multiobjective.MultiObjectiveFitness This is the superclass of fitness classes involving multiple objectives. This class holds not a single fitness value but some N objective values. These objective values can be either maximized or minimized depending on the setting of the fitness class. The class can perform Pareto Dominance computation between two MultiObjectiveFitness classes, and in fact uses this as the basis of its default fitness comparison. Additionally the class contains utility methods for computing Pareto Fronts. ec.multiobjective.MultiObjectiveStatistics This simple subclass of ec.simple.SimpleStatistics aso outputs the Pareto Front in various ways at the end of the run: - A summary printed on-screen in a helpful columnar format - The entire front written to the end of the statistics file - The multiple objective results of the front written to a special auxillary file (nominally called 'front.stat'). This front can be easily displayed by gnuplot, Excel, or other plotting packages. If you have a single subpopulation, for example, you can write: echo plot \"front.stat\" | gnuplot -persist and the front will be displayed in gnuplot for you.