Hyper-heuristics: A survey of the state of the art

EK Burke, M Gendreau, M Hyde, G Kendall… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the
goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search …

An efficient harris hawk optimization algorithm for solving the travelling salesman problem

FS Gharehchopogh, B Abdollahzadeh - Cluster Computing, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an Np-Hard problem, for which various
solutions have been offered so far. Using the Harris Hawk Optimization (HHO) algorithm, this …

Hyper-heuristics: An emerging direction in modern search technology

E Burke, G Kendall, J Newall, E Hart, P Ross… - Handbook of …, 2003 - Springer
This chapter introduces and overviews an emerging methodology in search and
optimisation. One of the key aims of these new approaches, which have been termed …

An artificial bee colony algorithm with a modified choice function for the traveling salesman problem

SS Choong, LP Wong, CP Lim - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence approach which
has initially been proposed to solve optimisation of mathematical test functions with a unique …

Hyperheuristics: recent developments

K Chakhlevitch, P Cowling - Adaptive and multilevel metaheuristics, 2008 - Springer
Given their economic importance, there is continuing research interest in providing better
and better solutions to real-world scheduling problems. The models for such problems are …

[PDF][PDF] An Improved Farmland Fertility Algorithm with Hyper-Heuristic Approach for Solving Travelling Salesman Problem.

FS Gharehchopogh, B Abdollahzadeh… - … -Computer Modeling in …, 2023 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a discrete hybrid optimization problem
considered NP-hard. TSP aims to discover the shortest Hamilton route that visits each city …

Choosing search heuristics by non-stationary reinforcement learning

MGC Resende, JP de Sousa, A Nareyek - … : Computer decision-making, 2004 - Springer
Search decisions are often made using heuristic methods because real-world applications
can rarely be tackled without any heuristics. In many cases, multiple heuristics can …

A reinforcement learning: great-deluge hyper-heuristic for examination timetabling

E Özcan, M Misir, G Ochoa, EK Burke - Modeling, analysis, and …, 2012 - igi-global.com
Hyper-heuristics can be identified as methodologies that search the space generated by a
finite set of low level heuristics for solving search problems. An iterative hyper-heuristic …

An investigation of a hyperheuristic genetic algorithm applied to a trainer scheduling problem

P Cowling, G Kendall, L Han - Proceedings of the 2002 …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a genetic algorithm based hyperheuristic (hyper-GA) for scheduling
geographically distributed training staff and courses. The aim of the hyper-GA is to evolve a …

Parallel hyper heuristic algorithm based on reinforcement learning for the corridor allocation problem and parallel row ordering problem

J Liu, Z Zhang, S Liu, Y Zhang, T Wu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Hyper heuristics is a relatively new optimisation algorithm. Numerous studies have reported
that hyper heuristics are well applied in combinatorial optimisation problems. As a classic …