Reinforcement Learning Applied to Scrum Team towards Large-Scale Global Optimization

Abstract

Large-scale problems have size of problem over a thousand dimensions in finding a best solution that uses long computation times. In this work, we use an idea of scrum methodology that is a well-known in software development companies, to create an optimization algorithm. The scrum methodology describing about the team organization likes as rugby team management that player have expert in game. The proposed algorithm is developed based on concept of the evolutionary computation by this work added agent specifics in leaning environment of the problem. The specific of the agent is reinforcement learning by taking an action and getting reward. The proposed algorithm was experimented on a large-scale global optimization finding optimum point of numerical function, comparing between with and without reinforcement learning. The experiment result showed that the usage of reinforcement learning has good results.