A learning automata based multiobjective hyper-heuristic

Li, Wenwen, Özcan, Ender and John, Robert (2017) A learning automata based multiobjective hyper-heuristic. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation . ISSN 1089-778X

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Abstract

Metaheuristics, being tailored to each particular domain by experts, have been successfully applied to many computationally hard optimisation problems. However, once implemented, their application to a new problem domain or a slight change in the problem description would often require additional expert intervention. There is a growing number of studies on reusable cross-domain search methodologies, such as, selection hyper-heuristics, which are applicable to problem instances from various domains, requiring minimal expert intervention or even none. This study introduces a new learning automata based selection hyper-heuristic controlling a set of multiobjective metaheuristics. The approach operates above three well-known multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and mixes them, exploiting the strengths of each algorithm. The performance and behaviour of two variants of the proposed selection hyper-heuristic, each utilising a different initialisation scheme are investigated across a range of unconstrained multiobjective mathematical benchmark functions from two different sets and the realworld problem of vehicle crashworthiness. The empirical results illustrate the effectiveness of our approach for cross-domain search, regardless of the initialisation scheme, on those problems when compared to each individual multiobjective algorithm. Moreover, both variants perform signicantly better than some previously proposed selection hyper-heuristics for multiobjective optimisation, thus signicantly enhancing the opportunities for improved multiobjective optimisation.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/901003
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Keywords: Online learning, Multiobjective optimisation, Hyper-heuristics, Evolutionary algorithms, Operational research
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2017.2785346
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2017 14:13
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:23
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/48692

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