abstract = "We use a form of grammar-based linear Genetic
Programming (GP) as a hyperheuristic, i.e., a search
heuristic on the space of heuristics. This technique is
guided by domain specific languages that one designs
taking inspiration from elementary components of
specialised heuristics and metaheuristics for a domain.
We demonstrate this approach for travelling salesman
problems for which we test different languages,
including one containing a looping construct.
Experimentation with benchmark instances from the
TSPLIB shows that the GP hyperheuristic routinely and
rapidly produces parsimonious metaheuristics that find
tours whose lengths are highly competitive with the
best real-valued lengths from literature.",
notes = "CEC 2007 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and
the IET.