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Evolving heuristics with genetic programming

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Abstract

Hyper-Heuristics are methods to choose and combine heuristics to generate new ones. In this work, we use a grammar-based genetic programming system as a Hyper-Heuristic framework. The framework is used for evolving effective incremental solvers for SAT (Inc*). Tests against well-known local search heuristics on a variety of benchmark problems reveal that the evolved heuristics are superior.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGECCO'08
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008
EditorsMaarten Keijzer
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages601-602
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781605581309
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jul 2008
Event10th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2008 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: 12 Jul 2008 → 16 Jul 2008

Conference

Conference10th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period12/07/08 → 16/07/08

Keywords

  • Genetic programming
  • Heuristics
  • Hyper-Heuristic
  • Inc*
  • SAT

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