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A thesis on the topic of multi-objective hyper-heuristics (selective and generative) applied to problems from hydro-informatics.Hyper-heuristics is a new field of optimisation which has recently emerged and is receiving growing exposure in the research community and literature. Hyper-heuristics are optimisation methods which are designed with a high level of abstraction from any one specific problem or class of problems and therefore are more generally applicable than specialised meta-heuristic and heuristic methods. Instead of being designed to solve a specific real-world problem, hyper-heuristics are designed to solve the problem of heuristic generation and selection. As such, hyper-heuristics can be thought of as methods for optimising the operations of an optimisation process which finds good solutions to a problem as a by-product. This approach has been shown to be very effective and in some cases provides improvement in search performance as well as reducing the burden associated with tailoring meta-heuristics which is often required when solving new problems.\ud In this thesis, the hypothesis that hyper-heuristics can be competitively applied to real-world multi-objective optimisation problems such as the water distribution design problem is tested. Although many single-objective hyper-heuristics have been proposed in the literature, only a few multi-objective methods have been proposed. This thesis explores two different novel multi-objective hyper-heuristics: one designed for generating new specialised heuristics; and one designed for solving the online selection of heuristics. Firstly, the behaviour of a set of heuristics is explored to create a base understanding of different heuristic behavioural traits in order to better understand the hyper-heuristic behaviours and dynamics later in the study. Both approaches are tested on a range of benchmark optimisation problems and finally applied to real-world instances of the water distribution network design problem where the selective hyper-heuristics is demonstrated as being very effective at solving this difficult problem. Furthermore, the thesis demonstrates how heuristic selection can be improved by incorporating a greater level of information about heuristic performance, namely the historical joint performance of different heuristics, and shows that exploiting this sequencing information in heuristic selection can produce highly competitive results.EPSR

A general multi-objective hyper-heuristic for water distribution network design with discolouration risk