User Guide

Welcome to the CUSTOMHyS User Guide. This section explains the framework’s architecture, walks through hands-on tutorials, and describes the data structures produced by experiments.

• Architecture
  • Module Overview
• Tutorials
  • Tutorial 1 — Solving a Benchmark Function
  • Tutorial 2 — Automatic Metaheuristic Design with the Hyper-heuristic
  • Tutorial 3 — Batch Experiments
  • Tutorial 4 — Creating Custom Operator Collections
• Data Structure
  • Top-Level Schema
  • Results Entry
  • Symbol Legend
  • Example: Loading Results

Overview

CUSTOMHyS follows a layered heuristic design where:

1. Search operators (low-level heuristics) modify individual agent positions.

2. A metaheuristic (mid-level heuristic) sequences one or more operators into a complete optimisation algorithm.

3. A hyper-heuristic (high-level heuristic) searches the space of possible metaheuristics to find the best operator sequence for a given problem.

4. An experiment orchestrates many hyper-heuristic runs across problems and dimensions.

The diagram below illustrates the module dependency structure: