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Running time analysis of metaheuristic search algorithms has attracted a lot of attention. When studying a metaheuristic algorithm over a problem class, a natural question is what are the easiest and the hardest cases of the problem class. The answer can be helpful for simplifying the analysis of an algorithm over a problem class as well as understanding the strength and weakness of an algorithm. This algorithm-dependent boundary case identification problem is investigated in this paper. We derive a general theorem for the identification, and apply it to a case that the (1+1)-EA with mutation probability less than 0.5 is used over the problem class of pseudo-Boolean functions with a unique global optimum.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (60903103, 61105043)
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Qian, C., Yu, Y., Zhou, ZH. (2012). On Algorithm-Dependent Boundary Case Identification for Problem Classes. In: Coello, C.A.C., Cutello, V., Deb, K., Forrest, S., Nicosia, G., Pavone, M. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII. PPSN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32937-1_7
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