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Representing and exploiting benchmarking data for optimisation and learning

Author(s): Ana Kostovska (Author), Panče Panov (Supervisor), Sašo Džeroski (Co-Supervisor), Tome Eftimov (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2025

Type: Doctoral dissertation

The rapid advancements in Machine Learning (ML) and Black-Box Optimization (BBO) have led to an increased reliance on benchmarking data for evaluating and comparing algorithms across diverse domain tasks. However, the effective exploitation of this data is hindered by challenges such as syntactic variability, semantic ambiguity, and lack of standardization. …

Characterization of constrained continuous multiobjective optimization problems

Author(s): Aljoša Vodopija (Author), Bogdan Filipič (Supervisor)

Year: 2024

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Despite the large volume of recently published papers in the field of constrained multiobjective optimization, the understanding and characterization of constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) for benchmarking multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) and the related constraint handling techniques (CHTs) remain unsatisfactory. Therefore, selecting appropriate CMOPs for benchmarking is challenging and lacks …

Towards understanding the impact of problem landscapes in numerical black-box optimization

Author(s): Urban Škvorc (Author), Peter Korošec (Supervisor), Tome Eftimov (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2023

Type: Doctoral dissertation

In optimization, it is well known that algorithm performance is dependent on the problem being solved. As a consequence of this, achieving good optimization results requires correctly matching an optimization problem to a specific optimization algorithm that performs well on that problem. For this to be possible, knowledge of both …