
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Softening some effects of the no free lunch (NFL) theorems
in optimization via parallel computing
S. van Huyssteen & A. Groenwold
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland, South Africa
ABSTRACT: The no free lunch (NFL) theorems, aptly named by Wolpert and Macready, imply that no search
or optimization (SO) algorithm will always outperform all other SO algorithms. Not only may an algorithm fare
very different when applied to different classes of ...