{"product_id":"tuning-metaheuristics-a-machine-learning-perspective-von-mauro-birattari-1","title":"Tuning Metaheuristics","description":"\u003cp\u003eMetaheuristics are a relatively new but already established approachto c- binatorial optimization. A metaheuristic is a generic algorithmic template that can be used for ?nding high quality solutions of hard combinatorial - timization problems. To arrive at a functioning algorithm, a metaheuristic needs to be con?gured: typically some modules need to be instantiated and someparametersneedto betuned.Icallthese twoproblems\"structural\"and \"parametric\" tuning, respectively. More generally, I refer to the combination of the two problems as \"tuning\". Tuning is crucial to metaheuristic optimization both in academic research andforpracticalapplications.Nevertheless,relativelylittle researchhasbeen devoted to the issue. This book shows that the problem of tuning a me- heuristic can be described and solved as a machine learning problem. Using the machine learning perspective, it is possible to give a formal de?nitionofthetuningproblemandtodevelopagenericalgorithmfortuning metaheuristics.Moreover,fromthemachinelearningperspectiveitispossible tohighlightsome?awsinthecurrentresearchmethodologyandtostatesome guidelines for future empirical analysis in metaheuristics research. This book is based on my doctoral dissertation and contains results I have obtained starting from 2001 while working within the Metaheuristics Net- 1 work. During these years I have been a?liated with two research groups: INTELLEKTIK, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany and IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. I am the- fore grateful to the research directors of these two groups: Prof. Wolfgang Bibel, Dr. Thomas Stützle, Prof. Philippe Smets, Prof. Hugues Bersini, and Prof. Marco Dorigo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783642101496\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Machine Learning Perspective\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783642101496","offer_id":39428522246237,"sku":"9783642101496","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/83bb2860-ac4a-45b4-9660-0ffb581835a9.jpg?v=1774679351","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/tuning-metaheuristics-a-machine-learning-perspective-von-mauro-birattari-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}