{
  "_description": "Protocol 10: Intelligent Multi-Strategy Optimization Configuration",
  "_version": "1.0",
  "_date": "2025-11-19",

  "study_name": "intelligent_optimization_example",
  "direction": "minimize",

  "intelligent_optimization": {
    "_description": "Protocol 10 - Automatic landscape analysis and strategy selection",
    "enabled": true,

    "characterization_trials": 15,
    "_comment_characterization": "Initial random exploration trials for landscape analysis (default: 15)",

    "stagnation_window": 10,
    "_comment_stagnation": "Number of trials to check for stagnation before switching (default: 10)",

    "min_improvement_threshold": 0.001,
    "_comment_threshold": "Minimum relative improvement to avoid stagnation (0.001 = 0.1%)",

    "min_analysis_trials": 10,
    "_comment_min_trials": "Minimum trials before landscape analysis is reliable (default: 10)",

    "reanalysis_interval": 15,
    "_comment_reanalysis": "Re-analyze landscape every N trials to detect changes (default: 15)",

    "strategy_preferences": {
      "_description": "Optional user preferences for strategy selection",
      "prefer_cmaes_for_smooth": true,
      "prefer_tpe_for_multimodal": true,
      "enable_hybrid_strategies": false,
      "_comment_hybrid": "GP→CMA-ES hybrid (not yet implemented)"
    }
  },

  "sampler": {
    "_description": "This will be overridden by Protocol 10's intelligent selection, but used as fallback",
    "type": "TPESampler",
    "params": {
      "n_startup_trials": 10,
      "n_ei_candidates": 24,
      "multivariate": true,
      "warn_independent_sampling": true
    }
  },

  "pruner": {
    "_description": "Early stopping for unpromising trials (optional)",
    "type": "MedianPruner",
    "params": {
      "n_startup_trials": 5,
      "n_warmup_steps": 0
    }
  },

  "adaptive_strategy": {
    "_description": "Protocol 8 - Adaptive exploitation based on surrogate confidence",
    "enabled": true,
    "min_confidence_for_exploitation": 0.65,
    "min_trials_for_confidence": 15,
    "target_confidence_metrics": {
      "convergence_weight": 0.4,
      "coverage_weight": 0.3,
      "stability_weight": 0.3
    }
  },

  "trials": {
    "n_trials": 100,
    "timeout": null,
    "_comment_timeout": "Maximum time in seconds (null = no timeout)",
    "catch": []
  },

  "reporting": {
    "auto_generate_plots": true,
    "include_optuna_visualizations": true,
    "include_confidence_report": true,
    "include_strategy_performance": true,
    "save_intelligence_report": true,
    "_comment_intelligence": "Saves landscape analysis and strategy decisions to JSON"
  },

  "verbosity": {
    "print_landscape_report": true,
    "print_strategy_recommendation": true,
    "print_phase_transitions": true,
    "print_confidence_updates": true,
    "log_to_file": true
  },

  "experimental": {
    "_description": "Experimental features (use at your own risk)",
    "enable_transfer_learning": false,
    "_comment_transfer": "Learn from previous studies (not yet implemented)",
    "enable_parallel_strategies": false,
    "_comment_parallel": "Run multiple strategies concurrently (not yet implemented)"
  },

  "optimization_notes": "This configuration enables Protocol 10: Intelligent Multi-Strategy Optimization. Atomizer will automatically characterize your problem landscape, select the best optimization algorithm, and switch strategies dynamically if needed. All decisions are logged for transparency."
}