Title
Making use of observable parameters in evolutionary dynamic optimization
Abstract
In evolutionary dynamic optimization (EDO), most of the existing studies have assumed that dynamic optimization problems are black boxes. However, for many real-world problems, the dynamic parameters that cause the problems to change are observable. However, determining the utility of these parameters in improving optimization performance has not yet been well studied. In this paper, we propose and compare three strategies for this task: rote learning, fitting data with a feedforward neural network and an ensemble strategy. The main idea of these strategies is to learn the relation between the observable parameters and the optimal solutions and then predict new optima once the environment changes. We also propose a set of test cases representing different kinds of characteristics of real-world problems. In the experiments, the proposed strategies are compared with existing methods that do not use observable parameters, and the results validate our proposed strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.ins.2019.10.024
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evolutionary dynamic optimization,gray-box optimization problems,learning,observable parameters,benchmark problems
Rote learning,Feedforward neural network,Observable,Artificial intelligence,Test case,Black box,Optimization problem,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
512
0020-0255
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tao Zhu18214.36
Wenjian Luo235640.95
Chenyang Bu3479.18
Huansheng Ning484783.48