SPOT swMATH ID: 6347 Software Authors: T. Bartz-Beielstein, J. Ziegenhirt, W. Konen, O. Flasch, M. Friese, P. Koch, M. Zaefferer, B. Naujoks Description: SPOT: Sequential Parameter Optimization , R-Package for Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox. The sequential parameter optimization (spot) package for R (R Development Core Team, 2008) is a toolbox for tuning and understanding simulation and optimization algorithms. Model-based investigations are common approaches in simulation and optimization. Sequential parameter optimization has been developed, because there is a strong need for sound statistical analysis of simulation and optimization algorithms. spot includes methods for tuning based on classical regression and analysis of variance techniques; tree-based models such as CART and random forest; Gaussian process models (Kriging), and combinations of di erent metamodeling approaches. This article exempli es how spot can be used for automatic and interactive tuning. Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SPOT/index.html Source Code: https://github.com/cran/SPOT Dependencies: R (≥ 2.14.0), rpart, maptree, emoa Related Software: irace; Paramils; R; SATenstein; SMAC; CPLEX; CMA-ES; json2run; TSPLIB; OR-Library; Tabu search; CEC 05; Knapsack; VRP; SATzilla; weightedHypervolume; SCIP; MOEA/D; DIMACS; SMS-EMOA Cited in: 84 Publications all top 5 Cited by 170 Authors 8 Stützle, Thomas G. 6 Wu, Qinghua 5 Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas 5 Benlic, Una 5 Hao, Jin-Kao 5 López-Ibáñez, Manuel 5 Lu, Yongliang 4 Di Gaspero, Luca 4 Ruiz, Rubén 4 Schaerf, Andrea 3 Chagas, Jonatas B. 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