Lessons from the black-box
Benjamin Doerr, Carola Doerr, Franziska Ebel · 2013
The recently active research area of black-box complexity revealed that for many optimization problems the best possible black-box optimization algorithm is significantly faster than all known evolutionary approaches. While it is not to be expected that a general-purpose heuristic competes with a problem-tailored algorithm, it still makes sense to look for the reasons for this discrepancy.