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Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search (2018)
Journal Article
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. I. (2018). Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search. Expert Systems with Applications, 131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.05.006

Metaheuristics provide high-level instructions for designing heuristic optimisation algorithms and have been successfully applied to a range of computationally hard real-world problems. Local search metaheuristics operate under a single-point based s... Read More about Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search.

Tuning a Simulated Annealing metaheuristic for cross-domain search (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. (in press). Tuning a Simulated Annealing metaheuristic for cross-domain search.

Simulated Annealing is a well known local search metaheuristic used for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Cross-domain search poses a higher level issue where a single solution method is used with minor, preferably no modification f... Read More about Tuning a Simulated Annealing metaheuristic for cross-domain search.

Performance of selection hyper-heuristics on the extended HyFlex domains (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Almutairi, A., Özcan, E., Kheiri, A., & Jackson, W. G. (2016). Performance of selection hyper-heuristics on the extended HyFlex domains. In Computer and information sciences: 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Kraków, Poland, October 27–28, 2016, proceedings (154-162). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47217-1_17

Selection hyper-heuristics perform search over the space of heuristics by mixing and controlling a predefined set of low level heuristics for solving computationally hard combinatorial optimisation problems. Being reusable methods, they are expected... Read More about Performance of selection hyper-heuristics on the extended HyFlex domains.

A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. I. (2016). A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2016.7743787

There is a growing number of studies on general purpose metaheuristics that are directly applicable to multiple domains. Parameter setting is a particular issue considering that many of such search methods come with a set of... Read More about A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic.