Title
A New Algorithm For Reducing Metaheuristic Design Effort
Abstract
The process of designing a metaheuristic is a difficult and time consuming task as it usually requires tuning to find the best associated parameter values. In this paper, we propose a simple tuning tool called EVOCA which allows unexperimented metaheuristic designers to obtain good quality results without have a strong knowledge in tuning methods. The simplicity here means that the designer does not have to care about the initial settings of the tuner. We apply EVOCA to a genetic algorithm that solves NK landscape instances of various categories. We show that EVOCA is able to tune both categorical and numerical parameters allowing the designer to discard ineffective components for the algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CEC.2013.6557972
2013 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (CEC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
calibration,genetic algorithms,statistics,algorithm design and analysis,genetic algorithm,sociology
Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Categorical variable,Algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Genetic algorithm,Tuner,Machine learning,Metaheuristic
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.71
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
María Cristina Riff120023.91
Elizabeth Montero26910.14