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A hyper-heuristic with a round robin neighbourhood selection

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Publication date22/03/2013
Host publicationEvolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 13th European Conference, EvoCOP 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
ISBN (electronic)9783642371981
ISBN (print)9783642371974
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event13th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2013 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 3/04/20135/04/2013

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2013
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period3/04/135/04/13

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7832 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2013
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period3/04/135/04/13

Abstract

An iterative selection hyper-heuristic passes a solution through a heuristic selection process to decide on a heuristic to apply from a fixed set of low level heuristics and then a move acceptance process to accept or reject the newly created solution at each step. In this study, we introduce Robinhood hyper-heuristic whose heuristic selection component allocates equal share from the overall execution time for each low level heuristic, while the move acceptance component enables partial restarts when the search process stagnates. The proposed hyper-heuristic is implemented as an extension to a public software used for benchmarking of hyper-heuristics, namely HyFlex. The empirical results indicate that Robinhood hyper-heuristic is a simple, yet powerful and general multistage algorithm performing better than most of the previously proposed selection hyper-heuristics across six different Hyflex problem domains.