Operator Learning for a Problem Class in a Distributed Peer-to-Peer Environment

  • Authors:
  • Márk Jelasity;Mike Preuß;A. E. Eiben

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PPSN VII Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper discusses a promising new research direction, the automatic learning of algorithm components for problem classes. We focus on the methodology of this research direction. As an illustration, a mutation operator for a special class of subset sum problem instances is learned. The most important methodological issue is the emphasis on the generalisability of the results. Not only a methodology but also a tool is proposed. This tool is called DRM (distributed resource machine), developed as part of the DREAM project, and is capable of running distributed experiments on the Internet making a huge amount of resources available to the researcher in a robust manner. It is argued that the DRM is ideally suited for algorithm learning.