How to Create User-Defined Problems

In this video it is shown how user-defined problems can be used to extend HeuristicLab with new custom optimization problems. As an example a user-defined n-queens problem is created and you can see how to define the problem's parameters and its solution encoding and how to implement a custom evaluation function using a programmable operator.

Additional Material

• n-queens.hl

Keywords

• user-defined problem
• n-queens
• problem parameters
• solution encoding
• programmable operator
• implement evaluation function