A Racing Algorithm for Configuring Metaheuristics

A study of ACO capabilities for solving the maximum clique problem

Journal of Heuristics

An effective hybrid algorithm for university course timetabling

Journal of Scheduling

Local Search-based Hybrid Algorithms for Finding Golomb Rulers

Constraints

Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for Graph Set T-colouring and Frequency Assignment

Constraints

Stochastic local search for large-scale instances of the haplotype inference problem by pure parsimony

Journal of Algorithms

Hybrid Local Search for Constrained Financial Portfolio Selection Problems

CPAIOR '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Extreme Value Based Adaptive Operator Selection

Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: PPSN X

Multiple Ant Colony Optimization for a Rich Vehicle Routing Problem: A Case Study

KES '07 Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems and the XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks on Proceedings of the 11th International Conference

Using Cost Distributions to Guide Weight Decay in Local Search for SAT

PRICAI '08 Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Adaptability of Algorithms for Real-Valued Optimization

EvoWorkshops '09 Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2009 on Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoCOMNET, EvoENVIRONMENT, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, EvoTRANSLOG

Hoeffding and Bernstein races for selecting policies in evolutionary direct policy search

ICML '09 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning

An experimental investigation of model-based parameter optimisation: SPO and beyond

Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Analysis of adaptive operator selection techniques on the royal road and long k-path problems

Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Bringing evolutionary computation to industrial applications with guide

Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Using performance fronts for parameter setting of stochastic metaheuristics

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers

Extreme: dynamic multi-armed bandits for adaptive operator selection

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers

Automatic algorithm configuration based on local search

AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2

Hierarchical Iterated Local Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem

HM '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics

An ant colony optimization approach for the multidimensional knapsack problem

Journal of Heuristics

Self-adaptive ant colony system for the traveling salesman problem

SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the brazil nut effect

IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems

ParamILS: an automatic algorithm configuration framework

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Ant colony optimization for the arc routing problem with intermediate facilities under capacity and length restrictions

Journal of Heuristics

Implementation effort and performance: a comparison of custom and out-of-the-box metaheuristics on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand

SLS'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Engineering stochastic local search algorithms: designing, implementing and analyzing effective heuristics

EasyAnalyzer: an object-oriented framework for the experimental analysis of stochastic local search algorithms

SLS'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Engineering stochastic local search algorithms: designing, implementing and analyzing effective heuristics

New ideas for applying ant colony optimization to the set covering problem

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Estimation-based metaheuristics for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem

Computers and Operations Research

Improvement strategies for the F-Race algorithm: sampling design and iterative refinement

HM'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hybrid metaheuristics

A gender-based genetic algorithm for the automatic configuration of algorithms

CP'09 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Principles and practice of constraint programming

Consultant-guided search: a new metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

On the generality of parameter tuning in evolutionary planning

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

An evaluation of off-line calibration techniques for evolutionary algorithms

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Toward comparison-based adaptive operator selection

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Fitness-AUC bandit adaptive strategy selection vs. the probability matching one within differential evolution: an empirical comparison on the bbob-2010 noiseless testbed

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

ISAC --Instance-Specific Algorithm Configuration

Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Off-line vs. on-line tuning: a study on MAX–MIN ant system for the TSP

ANTS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Swarm intelligence

Comparison-based adaptive strategy selection with bandits in differential evolution

PPSN'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Parallel problem solving from nature: Part I

Consultant-guided search algorithms with local search for the traveling salesman problem

PPSN'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Parallel problem solving from nature: Part II

On-the-fly calibrating strategies for evolutionary algorithms

Information Sciences: an International Journal

Time-bounded sequential parameter optimization

LION'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Learning and intelligent optimization

Self Controlling Tabu Search algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem

Computers and Industrial Engineering

MADS/F-race: mesh adaptive direct search meets F-race

IEA/AIE'10 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Industrial engineering and other applications of applied intelligent systems - Volume Part I

C-strategy: a dynamic adaptive strategy for the CLONALG algorithm

Transactions on computational science VIII

C-strategy: a dynamic adaptive strategy for the CLONALG algorithm

Transactions on computational science VIII

How to promote generalisation in evolutionary robotics: the ProGAb approach

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Predictive parameter control

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Automatic configuration of state-of-the-art multi-objective optimizers using the TP+PLS framework

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Instance-based parameter tuning for evolutionary AI planning

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Using landscape measures for the online tuning of heterogeneous distributed gas

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Tradeoffs in the empirical evaluation of competing algorithm designs

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Analyzing bandit-based adaptive operator selection mechanisms

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

From adaptive to more dynamic control in evolutionary algorithms

EvoCOP'11 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization

Off-line and on-line tuning: a study on operator selection for a memetic algorithm applied to the QAP

EvoCOP'11 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization

Bayesian networks to predict data mining algorithm behavior in ubiquitous computing environments

MSM'10/MUSE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of social media and ubiquitous data

Adaptive strategy selection in differential evolution for numerical optimization: An empirical study

Information Sciences: an International Journal

Performance prediction and automated tuning of randomized and parametric algorithms

CP'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Applications of racing algorithms: an industrial perspective

EA'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial Evolution

An empirical study of Hoeffding racing for model selection in k-nearest neighbor classification

IDEAL'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning

On MAX - MIN ant system's parameters

ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Geoacoustic inversion and uncertainty analysis with MAX - MIN ant system

ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

The balanced academic curriculum problem revisited

Journal of Heuristics

Parameter tuning of evolutionary algorithms: generalist vs. specialist

EvoApplicatons'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Volume Part I

Encouraging behavioral diversity in evolutionary robotics: An empirical study

Evolutionary Computation

Solving job shop scheduling with setup times through constraint-based iterative sampling: an experimental analysis

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Fitness landscape-based parameter tuning method for evolutionary algorithms for computing unique input output sequences

ICONIP'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part II

Automated configuration of mixed integer programming solvers

CPAIOR'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Strong combination of ant colony optimization with constraint programming optimization

CPAIOR'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

An optimal stopping strategy for online calibration in local search

LION'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Instance-Based parameter tuning via search trajectory similarity clustering

LION'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Fine-Tuning algorithm parameters using the design of experiments approach

LION'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Sequential model-based optimization for general algorithm configuration

LION'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Resampling methods for meta-model validation with recommendations for evolutionary computation

Evolutionary Computation

Hoeffding bound based evolutionary algorithm for symbolic regression

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Review: Neural Networks to model the innovativeness perception of co-creative firms

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal

The Gestalt heuristic: emerging abstraction to improve combinatorial search

Natural Computing: an international journal

Calibrating continuous multi-objective heuristics using mixture experiments

Journal of Heuristics

Are state-of-the-art fine-tuning algorithms able to detect a dummy parameter?

PPSN'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - Volume Part I

Quantifying homogeneity of instance sets for algorithm configuration

LION'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Automatically configuring algorithms for scaling performance

LION'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Evaluation of a family of reinforcement learning cross-domain optimization heuristics

LION'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization

DIMMA: A Design and Implementation Methodology for Metaheuristic Algorithms-A Perspective from Software Development

International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing

DIMMA-Implemented Metaheuristics for Finding Shortest Hamiltonian Path Between Iranian Cities Using Sequential DOE Approach for Parameters Tuning

International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing

Learn-and-Optimize: a parameter tuning framework for evolutionary AI planning

EA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial Evolution

Reducing calibration effort for clonal selection based algorithms: A reinforcement learning approach

Knowledge-Based Systems

Ordered racing protocols for automatically configuring algorithms for scaling performance

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Entropy-based adaptive range parameter control for evolutionary algorithms

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

S-Race: a multi-objective racing algorithm

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

An analysis of post-selection in automatic configuration

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Exploration and exploitation in evolutionary algorithms: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Automatic (offline) configuration of algorithms

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Testing the impact of parameter tuning on a variant of IPOP-CMA-ES with a bounded maximum population size on the noiseless BBOB testbed

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Research article: A computational model for enhancing recombinant Penicillin G Acylase production from Escherichia coli DH5α

Computational Biology and Chemistry

ParadisEO-MO: from fitness landscape analysis to efficient local search algorithms

Journal of Heuristics

Region based memetic algorithm for real-parameter optimisation

Information Sciences: an International Journal

A beginner's guide to tuning methods

Applied Soft Computing

Using statistical tools to determine the significance and relative importance of the main parameters of an evolutionary algorithm

Intelligent Data Analysis