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GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
The No-Free-Lunch theorem is a fundamental result in the field of black-box function optimization. Recent work has shown that coevolution can exhibit free lunches. The question a...
EMO
2003
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. The classic NFL theorems are invariably cast in terms of single objective optimization problems. We confirm that the classic NFL theorem holds for general multiobjective ...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 19 days 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 7 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 8 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...