This paper describes a generic (meta-)cooperative optimization schema in which several agents endowed with an optimization technique (whose nature is not initially restricted) cooperate to solve an optimization problem. These agents can use a wide set of optimization techniques, including local search, population-based methods, and hybrids thereof, hence featuring multilevel hybridization. This optimization approach is here deployed on the Tool Switching Problem (ToSP), a hard combinatorial optimization problem in the area of flexible manufacturing. We have conducted an ample experimental analysis involving a comparison of a wide number of algorithms or a large number of instances. This analysis indicates that some meta-cooperative instances perform significantly better than the rest of the algorithms, including a memetic algorithm that was the previous incumbent for this problem. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Amaya, J. E., Cotta, C., & Leiva, A. J. F. (2010). A memetic cooperative optimization schema and its application to the tool switching problem. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6238 LNCS, pp. 445–454). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_45
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