COLOMBO Deliverable 3.2: Results of the Offline Configuration and Tuning of the Emergent Behavior

Abstract

The Deliverable 3.2 presents the technology behind the off-line configuration process used to find proper parameters for the traffic light algorithms presented in WP2’s Deliverable D2.3. The document gives an introduction into the topic of automatic configuration. It describes the main automatic algorithm configurators that have been considered for the COLOMBO tuning tasks, compares, their performance on available benchmark configuration scenarios, analyses in more detail the performance of the most promising configurator, the irace software package, and proposes various improvements to it. The deliverable then describes how to apply irace to automatic configuration tasks for the off-line configuration of the traffic light control software developed in WP2 and gives an in-depth experimental analysis of the performance we achieved by the automatic configuration on some traffic control scenarios that so far have been considered in the COLOMBO project.