Template method hyper-heuristics
John Robert Woodward, Jerry Swan · 2014
The optimization literature is awash with metaphorically-inspired metaheuristics and their subsequent variants and hybridizations. This results in a plethora of methods, with descriptions that are often polluted with the language of the metaphor which inspired them [8]. Within such a fragmented field, the traditional approach of manual 'operator tweaking' makes it difficult to establish the contribution of individual metaheuristic components to the overall success of a methodology.