Kate Smith-Miles

On the diversity and robustness of parameterised multi-objective test suites

E Yap, MA Muñoz, K Smith-Miles

Journal article  |  2021  |  Applied Soft Computing

The development of optimisation algorithms heavily relies on comparing performance across benchmark problem suites. In continuous ..

An Instance Space Analysis of Regression Problems

Mario Andres Munoz, Tao Yan, Matheus R Leal, Kate Smith-Miles, Ana Carolina Lorena, Gisele L Pappa, Romulo Madureira Rodrigues

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACM TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM DATA

The quest for greater insights into algorithm strengths and weaknesses, as revealed when studying algorithm performance on large c..

Revisiting where are the hard knapsack problems? via Instance Space Analysis

Kate Smith-Miles, Jeffrey Christiansen, Mario Andres Munoz

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH

In 2005, David Pisinger asked the question “where are the hard knapsack problems?”. Noting that the classical benchmark test insta..

Towards Understanding Clustering Problems and Algorithms: An Instance Space Analysis

Luiz Henrique dos Santos Fernandes, Ana Carolina Lorena, Kate Smith-Miles

Journal article  |  2021  |  ALGORITHMS

Various criteria and algorithms can be used for clustering, leading to very distinct outcomes and potential biases towards dataset..

Analyzing randomness effects on the reliability of exploratory landscape analysis

Mario Andres Munoz, Michael Kirley, Kate Smith-Miles

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURAL COMPUTING

The inherent difficulty of solving a continuous, static, bound-constrained and single-objective black-box optimization problem dep..

Revisiting Facial Age Estimation with New Insights from Instance Space Analysis.

Kate Smith-Miles, Xin Geng

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell

When demonstrating the effectiveness of a new algorithm, researchers are traditionally encouraged to compare their algorithm's per..

Anomaly Detection in High-Dimensional Data

Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J Hyndman, Kate Smith-Miles

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS

The HDoutliers algorithm is a powerful unsupervised algorithm for detecting anomalies in high-dimensional data, with a strong theo..

A transformation technique for the clustered generalized traveling salesman problem with applications to logistics

Pouya Baniasadi, Mehdi Foumani, Kate Smith-Miles, Vladimir Ejov

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

The clustered generalized traveling salesman problem (CGTSP) is an extension of the classical traveling salesman problem (TSP), wh..

Generating New Space-Filling Test Instances for Continuous Black-Box Optimization

Mario A Munoz, Kate Smith-Miles

Journal article  |  2020  |  EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

This article presents a method to generate diverse and challenging new test instances for continuous black-box optimization. Each ..

Generation techniques for linear programming instances with controllable properties

Simon Bowly, Kate Smith-Miles, Davaatseren Baatar, Hans Mittelmann

Journal article  |  2020  |  MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING COMPUTATION

This paper addresses the problem of generating synthetic test cases for experimentation in linear programming. We propose a method..