The research presented in this paper forms part of the initiative aimed at automating the design of intelligent techniques to make them more accessible to non-experts. This study focuses on automating the hybridizatio...
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The research presented in this paper forms part of the initiative aimed at automating the design of intelligent techniques to make them more accessible to non-experts. This study focuses on automating the hybridization of metaheuristics and parameter tuning of the individual metaheuristics. It is an initial attempt at testing the feasibility to automate this design process. A geneticalgorithm is used for this purpose. Each hybrid metaheuristic is a combination of metaheuristics and corresponding parameter values. The geneticalgorithm explores the space of these combinations. The geneticalgorithm is evaluated by applying it to solve the symmetric travelling salesman problem. The evolved hybrid metaheuristics are found to perform competitively with the manually designed hybrid approaches from previous studies and outperform the metaheuristics applied individually. The study has also revealed the potential reusability of the evolved hybrids. Based on the success of this initial study, different problem domains shall be used to verify the automation approach to the design of hybrid metaheuristics.
Hybrid metaheuristics have proven to be effective at solving complex real-world problems. However, designing hybrid metaheuristics is extremely time consuming and requires expert knowledge of the different metaheurist...
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Hybrid metaheuristics have proven to be effective at solving complex real-world problems. However, designing hybrid metaheuristics is extremely time consuming and requires expert knowledge of the different metaheuristics that are hybridized. In previous work, the effectiveness of automating the design of relay hybrid metaheuristics has been established. A geneticalgorithm was used to determine the sequence of hybridized metaheuristics and the parameters of the metaheuristics in the hybrid. This study extends this idea by automating the design of each metaheuristic involved in the hybridization in addition to automating the design of the hybridization. A template is specified for each metaheuristic, defining the metaheuristic in terms of components. Manual design of metaheuristics usually involves determining the components of the metaheuristic. In this study, a geneticalgorithm is employed to determine the components and parameters for each metaheuristic as well as the sequence of hybridized metaheuristics. The proposed geneticalgorithm approach was evaluated by using it to automatically design hybrid metaheuristics for two problem domains, namely, the aircraft landing problem and the two-dimensional bin packing problem. The automatically designed hybrid metaheuristics were found to perform competitively to state-of-the-art hybridized metaheuristics for both problems. Future research will extend these ideas by looking at automating the derivation of metaheuristic algorithms without predefined structures specified by the templates. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Evolutionary computation (EC) has been widely applied to biological and biomedical data. The practice of EC involves the tuning of many parameters, such as population size, generation count, selection size, and crosso...
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Evolutionary computation (EC) has been widely applied to biological and biomedical data. The practice of EC involves the tuning of many parameters, such as population size, generation count, selection size, and crossover and mutation rates. Through an extensive series of experiments over multiple evolutionary algorithm implementations and 25 problems we show that parameter space tends to be rife with viable parameters, at least for the problems studied herein. We discuss the implications of this finding in practice for the researcher employing EC.
This paper describes the application of geneticalgorithms to nonlinear constrained mixed discrete-integer optimization problems with optimal sets of parameters furnished by a meta-genetic algorithm. geneticalgorithm...
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This paper describes the application of geneticalgorithms to nonlinear constrained mixed discrete-integer optimization problems with optimal sets of parameters furnished by a meta-genetic algorithm. geneticalgorithms are combinatorial in nature, and therefore are computationally suitable for treating discrete and integer design variables. Careful attention has been paid to modify the geneticalgorithms to promote computational efficiency. Some numerical experiments were performed so as to determine the appropriate range of genetic parameter values. Then the meta-genetic algorithm was employed to optimize these parameters to locate the best solution. Three examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology developed in this paper. Four crossover operators have been compared and the results show that a four-point crossover operator performs best.
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