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Erschienen in: Soft Computing 11/2014

01.11.2014 | Methodologies and Application

On the sensitivity of reactive tabu search to its meta-parameters

verfasst von: Paola Pellegrini, Franco Mascia, Thomas Stützle, Mauro Birattari

Erschienen in: Soft Computing | Ausgabe 11/2014

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Abstract

In this paper, we assess the sensitivity of reactive tabu search to its meta-parameters. Based on a thorough experimental analysis of reactive tabu search applications to the quadratic assignment and the maximum clique problem, we show that its performance is relatively insensitive to its meta-parameters. This is particularly evident when compared to the sensitivity of tabu search to its parameters: tabu search is rather penalized if used with sub-optimal parameter settings. Reactive tabu search does not strongly pay its high parameter robustness in terms of performance, although it does not improve the peak performance of tabu search.

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For a general discussion of parameter adaptation methods in evolutionary computation, we refer the interested reader to Eiben et al. (2007).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
On the sensitivity of reactive tabu search to its meta-parameters
verfasst von
Paola Pellegrini
Franco Mascia
Thomas Stützle
Mauro Birattari
Publikationsdatum
01.11.2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Soft Computing / Ausgabe 11/2014
Print ISSN: 1432-7643
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-7479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-013-1192-6

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