Statistical Features and Metrics of Search Spaces
摘要
This chapter builds on the notions presented in the previous Chap. 2 about search spaces. Here we adopt a problem instance-based point of view in the sense that instance search spaces are examined using a number of statistical methods and well-defined metrics. This empirical analysis is based on sampling the space. The results give information about the hardness of a given problem instance and potentially enable clever techniques that exploit the search space structure in an algorithm in order to find a quality solution to the corresponding optimization problem in reasonable time.