Testing Optimization Methods on Discrete Event Simulation Models and Testing Functions

The paper deals with testing of selected heuristic optimization methods and their evaluation. We have proposed different techniques which express the success of the optimization method in different ways (the method success, the difference between optimum and local extreme, the distances of quartiles, the number of simulation experiments until the optimum was found). These evaluation techniques use box plot characteristics calculated from the repeated optimization experiments. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of DAAAM International Vienna.