Title
High-dimensional objective-based data farming
Abstract
In objective-based data farming, decision variables of the Red Team are evolved using evolutionary algorithms such that a series of rigorous Red Team strategies can be generated to assess the Blue Team's operational tactics. Typically, less than 10 decision variables (out of 1000+) are selected by subject matter experts (SMEs) based on their past experience and intuition. While this approach can significantly improve the computing efficiency of the data farming process, it limits the chance of discovering “surprises” and moreover, data farming may be used only to verify SMEs' assumptions. A straightforward solution is simply to evolve all Red Team parameters without any SME involvement. This modification significantly increases the search space and therefore we refer to it as high-dimensional objective-based data farming (HD-OBDF). The potential benefits of HD-OBDF include: possible better performance and information about more important decision variables. In this paper, several state-of-the-art multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are applied in HD-OBDF to assess their suitability in terms of convergence speed and Pareto efficiency. Following that, we propose two approaches to identify dominant/key evolvable parameters in HD-OBDF - decision variable coverage and diversity spread.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CISDA.2011.5945942
CISDA
Keywords
Field
DocType
evolutionary algorithm,decision variable coverage,evolutionary computation,pareto efficiency,pareto distribution,convergence speed,objective based data farming,search problems,multiobjective evolutionary algorithm,red team strategy,decision theory,data handling,blue team operational tactics,computational modeling,indexation,data model,data models,computer model,indexes
Data modeling,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Pareto distribution,Subject-matter expert,Computer science,Evolutionary computation,Decision theory,Artificial intelligence,Pareto efficiency,Group method of data handling,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-9939-7
1
0.36
References 
Authors
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fanchao Zeng1132.59
James Decraene25010.17
Malcolm Yoke Hean Low369452.19
Wentong Cai41928197.81
Philip Hingston570062.33
Suiping Zhou653046.88