A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function

Hyper-heuristics are emerging methodologies that perform a search over the space of heuristics in an attempt to solve difficult computational optimization problems. We present a learning selection choice function based hyper-heuristic to solve multi-objective optimization problems. This high level a...

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Main Authors: Maashi, Mashael, Özcan, Ender, Kendall, Graham
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Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32175/
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description Hyper-heuristics are emerging methodologies that perform a search over the space of heuristics in an attempt to solve difficult computational optimization problems. We present a learning selection choice function based hyper-heuristic to solve multi-objective optimization problems. This high level approach controls and combines the strengths of three well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (i.e. NSGAII, SPEA2 and MOGA), utilizing them as the low level heuristics. The performance of the proposed learning hyper-heuristic is investigated on the Walking Fish Group test suite which is a common benchmark for multi-objective optimization. Additionally, the proposed hyper-heuristic is applied to the vehicle crashworthiness design problem as a real-world multi-objective problem. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the hyper-heuristic approach when compared to the performance of each low level heuristic run on its own, as well as being compared to other approaches including an adaptive multi-method search, namely AMALGAM.
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spelling nottingham-321752020-05-04T20:14:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32175/ A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function Maashi, Mashael Özcan, Ender Kendall, Graham Hyper-heuristics are emerging methodologies that perform a search over the space of heuristics in an attempt to solve difficult computational optimization problems. We present a learning selection choice function based hyper-heuristic to solve multi-objective optimization problems. This high level approach controls and combines the strengths of three well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (i.e. NSGAII, SPEA2 and MOGA), utilizing them as the low level heuristics. The performance of the proposed learning hyper-heuristic is investigated on the Walking Fish Group test suite which is a common benchmark for multi-objective optimization. Additionally, the proposed hyper-heuristic is applied to the vehicle crashworthiness design problem as a real-world multi-objective problem. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the hyper-heuristic approach when compared to the performance of each low level heuristic run on its own, as well as being compared to other approaches including an adaptive multi-method search, namely AMALGAM. Elsevier 2014-07 Article PeerReviewed Maashi, Mashael, Özcan, Ender and Kendall, Graham (2014) A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function. Expert Systems with Applications, 41 (9). pp. 4475-4493. ISSN 0957-4174 Hyper-heuristic; Metaheuristic; Evolutionary algorithm; Multi-objective optimization http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741741400013X doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.12.050 doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.12.050
spellingShingle Hyper-heuristic; Metaheuristic; Evolutionary algorithm; Multi-objective optimization
Maashi, Mashael
Özcan, Ender
Kendall, Graham
A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title_full A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title_fullStr A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title_full_unstemmed A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title_short A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
title_sort multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on choice function
topic Hyper-heuristic; Metaheuristic; Evolutionary algorithm; Multi-objective optimization
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32175/
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