Optimization and Search

Wolpert, D.H., and Macready, W.G., "Coevolutionary Free Lunches", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9, 721-735, 2005.

Koeppen, M., Wolpert, D. H., Macready, W. G., “Remarks on a Recent Paper on the ‘No Free Lunch’ Theorems”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5, pp. 295-296, June 2001. PDF or Postscript.

Macready, W.G., and Wolpert, D.H., “Bandit Problems and the Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2, 2-22, 1998. PDF or Postscript.

Wolpert, D.H., and Macready, W.G., “No Free Lunch Theorems for Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1, 1997. PDF or Postscript.

Macready, W.G., and Wolpert, D.H. “What Makes an Optimization Problem Hard?”, Complexity, 5, 1996. PDF or Postscript.