chapter 7

Question 1

what are 3 types of parameter control?

Answer 1

parameter control:

1. deterministic - time dependent
2. adaptive - feedback from search
3. self-adaptive - coded in chromosomes

Question 2

what are 4 problems with parameter tuning?

Answer 2

parameter tuning

1. user mistakes can be sources of errors or suboptimal performance
2. time expensive
3. parameters can interact, and exhaustive search would be necessary, but in practive not possible due to time constraints
4. good values might become bad during the run

Question 3

3 problems with parameter control

Answer 3

parameter control:

1. finding optimal time-varying schedule is even harder than finding optimal parameters
2. still user defined feedback mechanism
3. when would natural selection work for algorithm params