Some Ideas about No-Free Lunch for Hyper-Heuristics
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In this paper we prove that in some practical situations, there is a free lunch for hyper-heuristics, i.e., search algorithms that search the space of solvers, searchers, meta-heuristics and heuristics for problems.
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