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whether EC methods can outperform them (on the TSPLib
instances):
a) A simple Hill Climber (HC) that applies the aforementioned four search operators in a loop.
b) The Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) [43] implemented in the TSP Suite is based on the same four neighborhoods. In its main loop, it first shuffles them randomly

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and then performs a neighborhood descend. Once it
reaches an optimum it cannot escape from anymore, a
random part of the solution is shuffled and the procedure
begins again with shuffling the neighborhoods.
c) Instead of descending the neighborhoods in a specific
order and always returning to the first neighborhood
when an improvement is made, we also tested an

hMA128+256mnsefuss (28),

hMA2+4mnss (13),

hMA16,64mnsers (30),

hMA128,256mnsefuss (31),

MNSm (24.5) ,

hTEHBSA64dmns (19),

hMA128+256mnss (24.5),

hMA16,64mnseffa (18),

hPACO3,10rns (23),

hPACO5,25rns (29),

hMA128+256mnseffa (22),

hTEHBSA64hmns (17) ,

hPACO10,25mns (6),

MNSs (45),

hPACO5,10rns (46),
hTEHBSA2nhmns (47),

hMA16+64mnssffa (48.5),

hTEHBSA256dmns (48.5),

hMA2+8rnse (70),

hMA2+4rnse (67),

hTEHBSA2ndrns (85),

hTEHBSAnhrns (79),

hTEHBSA64hrns (73),

RNSb (107),

hMA16,64rnssrs (108),

hMA16,64rnseffa (122.5),

hMA2,8rnse (109),

hMA16,64rnse (124),

hMA2,4rnss (125),

hMA2,4rnse (126),

VNS1s (119.5),

hMA128,256rnseffa (115),

hMA128+256rnse (110.5),

hMA16,64rnsefuss (119.5),

hMA128,256rnsers (114),

hMA128+256rnsers (117.5),

hMA16+64rnseffa (113),

hMA16+64rnsefuss (127.5),

hMA128,256rnse (121),

hMA128,256rnsefuss (116),

hMA16+64rnssfuss (110.5),

hPACO3,10 (141),

hPACO5,10 (142.5),
hTEHBSA2nh (148.5),

hEA128,256s (164.5),

HC (166),

PACO10,10 (167),

DEA128+256m (168.5),

DEA128+256s (170),

DEA16,64s (162) , PACO5,10 (163),
DEA128,256s (168.5),

TEHBSA64d (180),

TEHBSAnd (181),

TEHBSA256d (182),

TEHBSA2nd (183),

TEHBSA2nr (184),

EA128,256s (185),

Figure 4 Rankings of the 193 algorithm configurations according to the metrics defined in Section III-C, specified in the notation given in Figure 3. The algorithm
families are represented by different colors as follows: local search, EA, hMA, PACO, DEA, and TEHBSA. Names of algorithms that are hybridized with MNS are
underlined and those that employ RNS are written in bold face. The best-ranked version of each algorithm family is displayed in a frame . The best pure global
search is displayed in a red frame and the best non-hybrid, seeded global search has a blue frame .

TEHBSA256r (193)

TEHBSA2nh (187), TEHBSAnh (187), TEHBSAnr (187), TEHBSA64h (189.5), TEHBSA64r (189.5), EA128,256e (191), TEHBSA256h (192), and

EA128+256s (179),

DEA128,256m (171), EA128+256e (172), DEA16,64m (173), EA16+64e (174), DEA16+64m (175), EA16,64e (176), EA16+64s (177), EA16,64s (178),

DEA16+64s (164.5),

hTEHBSA64h (157.5), PACO10,25 (157.5), hTEHBSA64d (159.5), hTEHBSAnr (159.5), hTEHBSAnd (161),

hTEHBSA2nr (148.5), HCs (150), hTEHBSA256r (151), PACO5,25 (152), hTEHBSAnh (153), PACO3,10 (154), hTEHBSA64r (155), hEA128,256e (156),

hTEHBSA2nd (147),

hPACO10,25 (140),
hTEHBSA256d (146),

hPACO5,25 (139),

PACO3,25 (144.5) ,

hPACO3,25 (138),

hPACO10,10 (144.5),

hEA16+64s (137),

hTEHBSA256h (142.5),

hEA16,64s (136),

hMA16,64rnsers (127.5), VNS1m (129), VNS1 (130), VNSb (131), hEA128+256e (132) , hEA16+64e (133), hEA128+256s (134.5), hEA16,64e (134.5),

hMA16+64rnsers (122.5),

hMA128+256rnsefuss (117.5),

hMA128+256rnseffa (112),

VNSbs (106),

hMA16+64rnssffa (100), hMA16+64rnssrs (101), hMA128,256rnssfuss (102), RNS1m (103), hMA16,64rnssfuss (104), hMA128,256rnssffa (105),

hMA128,256rnssrs (93), RNS1 (94), hMA16,64rnssffa (95), VNSbm (96), hMA128,256rnss (97), hMA128+256rnssffa (98), hMA128+256rnssrs (99),

hTEHBSA2nrrns (86), hMA128+256rnssfuss (87.5), hTEHBSA256rrns (87.5), hTEHBSAnrrns (89), RNS1s (90), RNSbs (91), hMA2,8rnss (92),

RNSbm (84),

hTEHBSA256hrns (77.5),

hMA16+64mnssrs (72),

hMA16,64rnss (83),

hMA16+64rnse (77.5),

hMA16,64mnssrs (71),

hTEHBSA256drns (82),

hTEHBSA64drns (76),

hTEHBSA2nhrns (81),

hTEHBSA64rrns (75),

hTEHBSAndrns (74),

hMA128+256rnss (80),

hMA2+4rnss (68.5),

hMA16+64rnss (68.5),

hMA128,256mnssrs (61),

hMA2+8rnss (66),

hMA128,256mnssffa (60),

hMA16+64mnssfuss (65),

hMA16,64mnssffa (59),

hMA16,64mnssfuss (64),

hMA128,256mnssfuss (58),

hMA2,4mnss (62.5),

hMA2,8mnss (57),

hMA128+256mnssrs (62.5),

MNS (56),

hTEHBSA2ndmns (50), hTEHBSA256r mns (51), hTEHBSA2nr mns (52.5), hTEHBSAnrmns (52.5), hMA128+256mnssffa (54), hMA128,256mnss (55),

hMA128,256mnsers (44),

hTEHBSA64r mns (38), hMA16,64mnss (39), hTEHBSAndmns (40.5), hTEHBSAnhmns (40.5), hMA16,64mnsefuss (42), hMA128+256mnssfuss (43),

hPACO10,25rns (32), hMA128,256mnseffa (33), hPACO10,10rns (34), hMA128+256mnsers (35), hTEHBSA256hmns (36), hMA16+64mnsefuss (37),

hMA2,4mnse (27),

hMA128,256mnse (21),

hPACO3,25rns (26),

hMA16+64mnsers (20),

hMA16+64mnseffa (16),

hMA16+64mnss (15),

hMA128+256mnse (14),

hMA2,8mnse (12),

hPACO10,10mns (5),

hMA2+8mnss (11),

hPACO5,25mns (4),

hMA16,64mnse (10),

hPACO5,10mns (2.5),

hMA2+4mnse (9),

hPACO3,25mns (2.5),

hMA2+8mnse (8),

hPACO3,10mns (rank 1) ,

hMA16+64mnse (7) ,



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