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GECCO
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
We identify classes of functions for which a No Free Lunch result does and does not hold, with particular emphasis on the relationship between No Free Lunch and problem description...
EC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We present a statistical model of empirical optimization that admits the creation of algorithms with explicit and intuitively defined desiderata. Because No Free Lunch theorems di...
FOGA
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
There has been considerable discussion of the pros/cons of recombination and mutation operators in the context of Holland's schema theory. In this paper we de ne a common fra...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
We introduce the concept of "minimal" search algorithm for a set of functions to optimize. We investigate the structure of closed under permutation (c.u.p.) sets and we c...