Local Optima Networks, Landscape Autocorrelation and Heuristic Search   Performance
  Recent developments in fitness landscape analysis include the study of Local Optima Networks (LON) and applications of the Elementary Landscapes theory. This paper represents a first step at combining these two tools to explore their ability to forecast the performance of search algorithms. We base our analysis on the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) and conduct a large statistical study over 600 generated instances of different types. Our results reveal interesting links between the network measures, the autocorrelation measures and the performance of heuristic search algorithms. 
Francisco Chicano, Fabio Daolio (ISI), Gabriela Ochoa, S\'ebastien   Verel (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe), Marco Tomassini (ISI...
cs.AI cs.NE