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FOGA
1998
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Dining with GAs: Operator Lunch Theorems
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...
William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong
EVOW
2008
Springer
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A Study of Some Implications of the No Free Lunch Theorem
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...
Andrea Valsecchi, Leonardo Vanneschi