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In the context of the introduction of intermittent renewable energies, we propose to optimize the main variables of the control rods of a nuclear power plant to improve its capability to load-follow. The design problem is a black-box combinatorial optimization problem with expensive evaluation based on a multi-physics simulator. Therefore, we use a parallel asynchronous master-worker Evolutionary Algorithm scaling up to thousand computing units. One main issue is the tuning of the algorithm parameters. A fitness landscape analysis is conducted on this expensive real-world problem to show that it would be possible to tune the mutation parameters according to the low-cost estimation of the fitness landscape features.
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Muniglia, M., Verel, S., Le Pallec, JC., Do, JM. (2018). A Fitness Landscape View on the Tuning of an Asynchronous Master-Worker EA for Nuclear Reactor Design. In: Lutton, E., Legrand, P., Parrend, P., Monmarché, N., Schoenauer, M. (eds) Artificial Evolution. EA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78133-4_3
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