John R. Woodward

Connecting Automatic Parameter Tuning, Genetic Programming as a Hyper-heuristic, and Genetic Improvement Programming

2016

Automatically designing algorithms has long been a dream of computer scientists. Early attempts which generate computer programs from scratch, have failed to meet this goal. However, in recent years there have been a number of …

Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper introduces a simple and fast variant of Planet Wars as a test-bed for statistical planning based Game AI agents, and for noisy hyper-parameter optimisation. Planet Wars is a real-time strategy game with simple …

Hyper-heuristics tutorial

2021 · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion

tutorial Hyper-heuristics tutorial Authors: Daniel R. Tauritz Auburn University Auburn UniversityView Profile , John Woodward Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of LondonView Profile Authors Info & Claims GECCO '21: Proceedings of the …