Using datamining techniques to help metaheuristics: A short survey

Abstract. Hybridizing metaheuristic approaches becomes a common way to improve the efficiency of optimization methods. Many hybridiza-tions deal with the combination of several optimization methods. In this paper we are interested in another type of hybridization, where datamin-ing approaches are combined within an optimization process. Hence, we propose to study the interest of combining metaheuristics and datamin-ing through a short survey that enumerates the different opportunities of such combinations based on literature examples.