@techreport{BartzBeielsteinDoerrBosseketal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Carola Doerr and Jakob Bossek and Sowmya Chandrasekaran and Tome Eftimov and Andreas Fischbach and Pascal Kerschke and Manuel Lopez-Ibanez and Katherine M. Malan and Jason H. Moore and Boris Naujoks and Patryk Orzechowski and Vanessa Volz and Markus Wagner and Thomas Weise}, title = {Benchmarking in Optimization: Best Practice and Open Issues}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-cos4-9022}, pages = {58}, abstract = {This survey compiles ideas and recommendations from more than a dozen researchers with different backgrounds and from different institutes around the world. Promoting best practice in benchmarking is its main goal. The article discusses eight essential topics in benchmarking: clearly stated goals, well- specified problems, suitable algorithms, adequate performance measures, thoughtful analysis, effective and efficient designs, comprehensible presentations, and guaranteed reproducibility. The final goal is to provide well-accepted guidelines (rules) that might be useful for authors and reviewers. As benchmarking in optimization is an active and evolving field of research this manuscript is meant to co-evolve over time by means of periodic updates.}, language = {en} }