SPARKLINE HISTOGRAMS FOR COMPARING EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION METHODS

Ville Tirronen, Matthieu Weber

2010

Abstract

Comparing evolutionary optimization methods is a difficult task. As more and more of articles are published in this field, the readers and reviewers are swamped with information that is hard to decipher. We propose the use of sparkline histograms that allow compact representation of test data in a way which is extremely fast to read and more informative than usually given metrics.

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Tirronen V. and Weber M. (2010). SPARKLINE HISTOGRAMS FOR COMPARING EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION METHODS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 269-274. DOI: 10.5220/0003110402690274


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@conference{icec10,
author={Ville Tirronen and Matthieu Weber},
title={SPARKLINE HISTOGRAMS FOR COMPARING EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION METHODS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={269-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003110402690274},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - SPARKLINE HISTOGRAMS FOR COMPARING EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION METHODS
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Tirronen V.
AU - Weber M.
PY - 2010
SP - 269
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0003110402690274