Visualization for Hyper-Heuristics: Front-End Graphical User Interface

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1177598· OSTI ID:1177598

Kroenung, Lauren ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Modern society is faced with ever more complex problems, many of which can be formulated as generate-and-test optimization problems. General-purpose optimization algorithms are not well suited for real-world scenarios where many instances of the same problem class need to be repeatedly and efficiently solved because they are not targeted to a particular scenario. Hyper-heuristics automate the design of algorithms to create a custom algorithm for a particular scenario. While such automated design has great advantages, it can often be difficult to understand exactly how a design was derived and why it should be trusted. This project aims to address these issues of usability by creating an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for hyper-heuristics to support practitioners, as well as scientific visualization of the produced automated designs. My contributions to this project are exhibited in the user-facing portion of the developed system and the detailed scientific visualizations created from back-end data.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1177598
• Report Number(s): SAND--2015-2324R; 579484
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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