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The report and presentation should in the first place reasonably evaluate and compare implemented algorithms. The algorithms should be compared w.r.t. their efficiency, i.e., the ability to generate high-quality solutions as fast as possible in terms of the number of executed fitness function evaluations.
Although the material described in both your report and your presentation is the same, their focus differs. The report should contain more detailed description of the algorithms and their results. The presentation should cover only the main ideas behind the algorithms and the main results achieved with the algorithms.
General structure:
The time slot for each presentation will be approximately 10 minutes. So be concise!
The group presentation should contain:
Put all parts into a single presentation. We have to strictly stick with the schedule, so we need to minimize the overhead related to switching between presentations. Individual parts of the presentation should be presented by individual students. One of the students will present the collective parts.
When comparing individual algorithms, you should ensure that all the algorithms were run in similar conditions. For most of the tasks it is sufficient to compare the achieved results
The most important feature of an optimization algorithm is the best solution achieved after certain number of fitness evaluations (or after a certain “time”), the so-called best-so-far (BSF) solution. (The average quality of solutions in the population is not that important.) To reduce the uncertainty of the results of stochastic algorithms, we shall perform several (tens) runs of the same algorithm on the same problem. This way we get for all numbers of evaluations (for all “time” instants) one BSF solution from each of N runs. Based on this data set, it is possible to compute for each “time” instant the statistics like median/mean, interquartile range/standard deviation/min-max range.
The results shall be presented in tables and/or graphs. If you present the quality of achieved solution, make sure the following is clear:
In addition to the mean or median, present also a measure of uncertainty (variability). Use the following pairs:
Instead of a boring table, it is often better to use picture: