eprintid: 10068492 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/84/92 datestamp: 2019-02-21 15:06:11 lastmod: 2021-12-20 23:42:26 status_changed: 2019-02-21 15:06:11 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Blot, A creators_name: Hoos, HH creators_name: Kessaci, M-E creators_name: Jourdan, L title: Automatic Configuration of Bi-objective Optimisation Algorithms: Impact of Correlation between Objectives ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 keywords: Automatic algorithm configuration , Multi objective optimisation , Combinatorial optimisation , Heuristic algorithms note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Multi-objective optimisation algorithms expose various parameters that have to be tuned in order to be efficient. Moreover, in multi-objective optimisation, the correlation between objective functions is known to affect search space structure and algorithm performance. Considering the recent success of automatic algorithm configuration (AAC) techniques for the design of multi-objective optimisation algorithms, this raises two interesting questions: what is the impact of correlation between optimisation objectives on (1) the efficacy of different AAC approaches and (2) on the optimised algorithm designs obtained from these automated approaches? In this work, we study these questions for multi-objective local search algorithms (MOLS) for three well-known bi-objective permutation problems, using two single-objective AAC approaches and one multi-objective approach. Our empirical results clearly show that overall, multi-objective AAC is the most effective approach for the automatic configuration of the highly parametric MOLS framework, and that there is no systematic impact of the degree of correlation on the relative performance of the three AAC approaches. We also find that the best-performing configurations differ, depending on the correlation between objectives and the size of the problem instances to be solved, providing further evidence for the usefulness of automatic configuration of multi-objective optimisation algorithms. date: 2018-12-17 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8576091 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1629255 doi: 10.1109/ICTA1.2018.00093 lyricists_name: Blot, Aymeric lyricists_id: ABLOT72 actors_name: Austen, Jennifer actors_id: JAUST66 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: Proceedings-International Conference on Tools With Artificial Intelligence publication: 2018 IEEE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI) pagerange: 571-578 pages: 8 event_title: 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) event_location: Volos, GREECE event_dates: 05 November 2018 - 07 November 2018 institution: 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) issn: 1082-3409 book_title: 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence Proceedings citation: Blot, A; Hoos, HH; Kessaci, M-E; Jourdan, L; (2018) Automatic Configuration of Bi-objective Optimisation Algorithms: Impact of Correlation between Objectives. In: 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence Proceedings. (pp. pp. 571-578). IEEE Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068492/1/ictai_2018_preprint.pdf