- author = "Mazhar {Ansari Ardeh} and Yi Mei and Mengjie Zhang",
- title = "A Novel Multi-Task Genetic Programming Approach to Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
- year = "2021",
- editor = "Francisco Chicano and Alberto Tonda and Krzysztof Krawiec and Marde Helbig and Christopher W. Cleghorn and Dennis G. Wilson and Georgios Yannakakis and Luis Paquete and Gabriela Ochoa and Jaume Bacardit and Christian Gagne and Sanaz Mostaghim and Laetitia Jourdan and Oliver Schuetze and Petr Posik and Carlos Segura and Renato Tinos and Carlos Cotta and Malcolm Heywood and Mengjie Zhang and Leonardo Trujillo and Risto Miikkulainen and Bing Xue and Aneta Neumann and Richard Allmendinger and Fuyuki Ishikawa and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo and Frank Neumann and Andrew M. Sutton",
- pages = "759--767",
- address = "internet",
- series = "GECCO '21",
- month = jul # " 10-14",
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem, Hyper Heuristics, Multi-task Optimisation",
- isbn13 = "9781450383509",
-
DOI = "
10.1145/3449639.3459322",
- size = "9 pages",
- abstract = "Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (UCARP) is an NP-hard optimisation problem with many applications in logistics domains. Genetic Programming (GP) is capable of evolving routing policies to handle the uncertain environment of UCARP. There are many different but related UCARP domains in the real world to be solved (e.g. winter gritting and waste collection for different cities). Instead of training a routing policy for each of them, we can use the multi-task learning paradigm to improve the training effectiveness by sharing the common knowledge among the related UCARP domains. Previous studies showed that GP population for solving UCARP loses diversity during its evolution, which decreases the effectiveness of knowledge sharing. we propose a novel multi-task GP approach that takes the uniqueness of transferable knowledge, as well as its quality, into consideration. Additionally, the transferred knowledge in a manner that improves diversity. We investigated the performance of the proposed method with several experimental studies and demonstrated that the designed knowledge transfer mechanism can significantly improve the performance of GP for solving UCARP",
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notes = "Victoria University of Wellington
GECCO-2021 A Recombination of the 30th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 26th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)",
