Niveau: Supérieur, Doctorat, Bac+8
Traineeship proposal ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF PARAMETER TUNING FOR LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHMSLocation : either University of Nantes (LINA) or University of Angers (LERIA), FranceSalary : up to 3000 € for the whole periodStarting date : May 2010 Duration : at least 4 monthsContact : Charlotte Truchet, , and Frédéric Saubion,ntextDuring the last decades, impressive improvements have been achieved to solve complexoptimization problems, issued from real world applications, which involve more and more dataand constraints. In order to tackle large scale instances and intricate problem structures,sophisticated solving techniques have been developed and combined to provide efficientsolvers. Among the different solving paradigms, local search has been widely used as an incompleteoptimization technique for solving such problems. It is now integrated in solvers and combinedwith other techniques. Local search mainly relies on the basic concept of neighbourhood. Starting from an initialconfiguration, a local search algorithm tries to reach the optimum by moving locally from aconfiguration to one of its neighbours, according to its evaluation. The performance of such analgorithm is strongly related to its ability to explore and exploit the search landscape. Forinstance, when faced to a very rugged landscape, one should be able to escape from manylocal optima while in presence of large plateaus, one should be able to widely explore thespace.In order to manage the balance between exploitation and exploration, various efficientheuristics have been proposed, usually relying on stochastic perturbations and restarts.
- evolutionary computation
- experimental dataconsidering random
- well known parameters
- proceedings des journées francophones de programmation par contraintes
- extensive experimental studies