“…Parameter μ is the minimum size of the population, and λ decides when to invoke survivor selection. For the preliminary test, we choose 10 instances with different numbers of requests: 4 holiday instances (instances 5, 10, 15, 20) and 6 non-holiday instances (instances 5,10,15,20,25,30). Four different values are tested for each parameter, giving us 16 pairs of parameter combinations.…”