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Reproducibility package for: The Asteroid Routing Problem: A Benchmark for Expensive Black-Box Permutation Optimization

  • 1. University of Málaga

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Manuel López-Ibáñez, Francisco Chicano, Rodrigo Gil-Merino. The Asteroid Routing Problem: A Benchmark for Expensive Black-Box Permutation Optimization. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation 2022, LNCS 13224, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-02462-7_9 | arXiv:2203.15708

Inspired by the recent 11th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, this paper presents the asteroid routing problem (ARP) as a realistic benchmark of algorithms for expensive bound-constrained black-box optimization in permutation space. Given a set of asteroids' orbits and a departure epoch, the goal of the ARP is to find the optimal sequence for visiting the asteroids, starting from Earth's orbit, in order to minimize both the cost, measured as the sum of the magnitude of velocity changes required to complete the trip, and the time, measured as the time elapsed from the departure epoch until visiting the last asteroid. We provide open-source code for generating instances of arbitrary sizes and evaluating solutions to the problem.  As a preliminary analysis, we compare the results of two methods for expensive black-box optimization in permutation spaces, namely, CEGO, a Bayesian optimizer based on Gaussian processes, and UMM, an estimation-of-distribution algorithm based on probabilistic Mallows models. We investigate the best permutation representation for each algorithm, either rank-based or order-based. Moreover, we analyze the effect of providing a good initial solution, generated by a greedy nearest neighbor heuristic, on the performance of the algorithms. The results suggest directions for improvements in the algorithms being compared.

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