An Introduction to Fitness Landscape Analysis and Cost Models for Local Search

Jean-Paul Watson ()
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Jean-Paul Watson: Sandia National Laboratories

Chapter Chapter 20 in Handbook of Metaheuristics, 2010, pp 599-623 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Despite their empirical effectiveness, our theoretical understanding of metaheuristic algorithms based on local search (and all other paradigms) is very limited, leading to significant problems for both researchers and practitioners. Specifically, the lack of a theory of local search impedes the development of more effective metaheuristic algorithms, prevents practitioners from identifying the metaheuristic most appropriate for a given problem, and permits widespread conjecture and misinformation regarding the benefits and/or drawbacks of particular metaheuristics. Local search metaheuristic performance is closely linked to the structure of the fitness landscape, i.e., the nature of the underlying search space. Consequently, understanding such structure is a first step toward understanding local search behavior, which can ultimately lead to a more general theory of local search. In this chapter, we introduce and survey the literature on fitness landscape analysis for local search, placing the research in the context of a broader, critical classification scheme delineating methodologies by their potential to account for local search metaheuristic performance.

Keywords: Local Search; Tabu Search; Problem Instance; Cost Model; Travel Salesman Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1665-5_20

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