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Publication Detail
An Empirical Study of Meta-and Hyper-Heuristic Search for Multi-Objective Release Planning
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Publication Type:Report
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Authors:Zhang Y, Harman M, Ochoa G, Ruhe G, Brinkkemper S
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publication date:06/2014
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Place of publication:Department of Computer Science, UCL
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Report number:RN/14/07
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Notes:owner: Yuanyuan timestamp: 2015.11.06
Abstract
A variety of meta-heuristic search algorithms have been introduced for optimising software release planning. However, there has been no comprehensive empirical study of different search algorithms across multiple different real world datasets. In this paper we present an empirical study of global, local and hybrid meta- and hyper-heuristic search based algorithms on 10 real world datasets. We find that the hyper-heuristics are particularly effective. For example, the hyper-heuristic genetic algorithm significantly outperformed the other six approaches (and with high effect size) for solution quality 85% of the time, and was also faster than all others 70% of the time. Furthermore, correlation analysis reveals that it scales well as the number of requirements increases.
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