Towards a theory of practice in metaheuristics design: A machine learning perspective
A number of methodological papers published during the last years testify that a need for a thorough revision of the research methodology is felt by the operations research community – see, for example, [Barr (1995) 9–32; Eiben and Jelasity, 582–587; Hooker, (1995) 33–42; Rardin and Uzsoy, (2001) 261–304]. In particular, the performance evaluation of nondeterministic methods, including widely studied metaheuristics such as evolutionary computation...