Reinforcement learning versus evolutionary computation: A survey on hybrid algorithms

MM Drugan - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2019 - Elsevier
A variety of Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques blends with one or more techniques
from Evolutionary Computation (EC) resulting in hybrid methods classified according to their …

Rule-based reinforcement learning methodology to inform evolutionary algorithms for constrained optimization of engineering applications

MI Radaideh, K Shirvan - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
For practical engineering optimization problems, the design space is typically narrow, given
all the real-world constraints. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has commonly been guided by …

Recent advances in clonal selection algorithms and applications

W Luo, X Lin - 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clonal selection algorithms (CSAs) are a kind of Artificial Immune Algorithms (AIAs). In this
paper, recent advances in clonal selection algorithms are summarized and reviewed. First …

A hyper-heuristic ensemble method for static job-shop scheduling

E Hart, K Sim - Evolutionary computation, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
We describe a new hyper-heuristic method NELLI-GP for solving job-shop scheduling
problems (JSSP) that evolves an ensemble of heuristics. The ensemble adopts a divide-and …

A clonal selection algorithm for dynamic multimodal function optimization

W Luo, X Lin, T Zhu, P Xu - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of dynamic multimodal optimization problems (DMMOPs) is to find all global
optima in a dynamic environment. Although dynamic optimization problems (DOPs) have …

Instance space analysis and algorithm selection for the job shop scheduling problem

S Strassl, N Musliu - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the job shop scheduling problem, a well-known, NP-hard
problem that has been extensively studied in the literature, but for which, despite its age and …

A tensor based hyper-heuristic for nurse rostering

S Asta, E Özcan, T Curtois - Knowledge-based systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Nurse rostering is a well-known highly constrained scheduling problem requiring
assignment of shifts to nurses satisfying a variety of constraints. Exact algorithms may fail to …

Hyper-heuristics and Scheduling problems: Strategies, application areas, and performance metrics

A Vela, GH Valencia-Rivera, JM Cruz-Duarte… - IEEE …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scheduling problems, which involve allocating resources to tasks over specified time
periods to optimize objectives, are crucial in various fields. This work presents hyper …

Beyond hyper-heuristics: A squared hyper-heuristic model for solving job shop scheduling problems

A Vela, JM Cruz-Duarte, JC Ortiz-Bayliss… - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hyper-heuristics (HHs) stand as a relatively recent approach to solving optimization
problems. There are different kinds of HHs. One of them deals with how low-level heuristics …

A feature-independent hyper-heuristic approach for solving the knapsack problem

X Sánchez-Díaz, JC Ortiz-Bayliss, I Amaya… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in automatic learning mechanisms and
applications. The concept of hyper-heuristics, algorithms that either select among existing …