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P. Watson. Properties of Gray and Binary Representations. Evolutionary Computation, 12:in press, 2004. [WGW03] D. Whitley, D. Garrett, and J. Watson. Genetic Quad Search. In GECCO 2003, pages 1469–1480. Springer, 2003. [Whi99] D. Whitley. A Free Lunch Proof for Gray versus Binary Encodings. In GECCO-99, pages 726–733. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. [WM95] David H. Wolpert and William G. Macready. No free lunch theorems for search. Technical Report SFI-TR-95-02-010, Santa Fe Institute, July 1995. [WRB04] D.

Non-decreasing functions α : IN → [1; ∞[. It is known that in some circumstances increasing the temperature can be beneficial [4]. However, we consider such “cooling” schedules to be degenerated and inappropriate for simulated annealing. Still, the choice of a cooling schedule introduces a great degree of freedom that is not present when using the (1+1) EA. We accept this difference here without trying to find any balancing mechanisms for the (1+1) EA. For a concrete objective function f : {0, 1}n → IR, we consider simulated annealing to be superior if we can find a cooling schedule such that simulated annealing clearly outperforms the (1+1) EA by means of expected optimization time.

Both 2L − 1 and 2L−1 − 1 are Hamming distance 1 from the string of all zeros. Therefore, moving from point i to one of the other 3 points involves flipping the first bit, the second bit, or both. Because exclusive-or just applies a bit-flip mask, this indexing scheme works regardless of the quadrant in which the point i actually appears. 1 Quad Search Consider a unimodal function encoded using an L bit Gray code. Any given point has two neighbors in quadrants outside of its own quadrant; they are the points generated by flipping the two high order bits.

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