A Self-Adaptive Variant of CMSA: Application to the Minimum Positive Influence Dominating Set Problem

Construct, merge, solve and adapt (CMSA) is a recently developed, generic algorithm for combinatorial optimisation. Even though the usefulness of the algorithm has been demonstrated by applications to a range of combinatorial optimisation problems, in some applications, it was observed that the algo...

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Autores: Akbay, Mehmet Anıl, López Serrano, Albert, Blum, Christian
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282369
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282369
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85133673565
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Combinatorial optimisation
Hybrid algorithms
Positive influence dominating set
Self-adaptation
Descrição
Resumo:Construct, merge, solve and adapt (CMSA) is a recently developed, generic algorithm for combinatorial optimisation. Even though the usefulness of the algorithm has been demonstrated by applications to a range of combinatorial optimisation problems, in some applications, it was observed that the algorithm can be sensitive to parameter settings. In this work, we propose a self-adaptive variant of CMSA, called Adapt-CMSA, with the aim of reducing the parameter sensitivity of the original version of CMSA. The advantages of this new CMSA variant are demonstrated in the context of the application to the so-called minimum positive influence dominating set problem. It is shown that, in contrast to CMSA, Adapt-CMSA does not require a computation time intensive parameter tuning process for subsets of the considered set of problem instances. In fact, after tuning Adapt-CMSA only once for the whole set of benchmark instances, the algorithm already obtains state-of-the-art results. Nevertheless, note that the main objective of this paper is not the tackled problem but the improvement of CMSA.