While in the past decades research on multi-objective evolutionaryalgorithms (MOEA) has aimed at finding the wholeset of Pareto optimal solutions, current approaches focus ononly those parts of the Pareto front which satisfy the preferencesof the decision maker (DM). Therefore, they integratethe...

The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We first develop a theoretical framework to identify the factors that...