Abstract. In this paper we evaluate on-the-fly population (re)sizing mechanisms for evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Evaluation is done by an experimental comparison, where the contestants are various existing methods and a new mechanism, introduced here. These comparisons consider EA performance in terms of success rate, speed, and solution quality, measured on a variety of fitness landscapes. These landscapes are created by a generator that allows for gradual tuning of their characteristics. Our test suite covers a wide span of landscapes ranging from a smooth one-peak landscape to a rugged 1000-peak one. The experiments show that the population (re)sizing mechanisms exhibit significant differences in speed, measured by the number of fitness evaluations to a solution and the best EAs with adaptive population resizing outperform the traditional genetic algorithm (GA) by a large margin.
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