Automated design of search algorithms: Learning on algorithmic components

This paper proposes AutoGCOP, a new general framework for automated design of local search algorithms. In a recently established General Combinatorial Optimisation Problem (GCOP) model, the problem of algorithm design itself is defined as a combinatorial optimisation problem. AutoGCOP defines a general framework to optimise the composition of elementary algorithmic components as decision variables in GCOP. By modelling various well-known local...