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Performance of selection hyper-heuristics on the extended hyflex domains

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Publication date24/09/2016
Host publicationComputer and Information Sciences - 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Proceedings
EditorsRicardo Lent, Erol Gelenbe, Tadeusz Czachórski, Krzysztof Grochla
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages154-162
Number of pages9
ISBN (electronic)9783319472171
ISBN (print)9783319472164
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016 - Kraków, Poland
Duration: 27/10/201628/10/2016

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Conference31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKraków
Period27/10/1628/10/16

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume659
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKraków
Period27/10/1628/10/16

Abstract

Selection hyper-heuristics perform search over the space of heuristics by mixing and controlling a predefined set of low level heuristics for solving computationally hard combinatorial optimisation problems. Being reusable methods, they are expected to be applicable to multiple problem domains, hence performing well in cross-domain search. HyFlex is a general purpose heuristic search API which separates the high level search control from the domain details enabling rapid development and performance comparison of heuristic search methods, particularly hyper-heuristics. In this study, the performance of six previously proposed selection hyper-heuristics are evaluated on three recently introduced extended HyFlex problem domains, namely 0-1 Knapsack, Quadratic Assignment and Max-Cut. The empirical results indicate the strong generalising capability of two adaptive selection hyper-heuristics which perform well across the ‘unseen’ problems in addition to the six standard HyFlex problem domains.