Search for a Method or The Problem of Method (French: Questions de méthode) is a 1957 essay by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author attempts...

science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, logarithmic search, or binary chop, is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value...

subclass are the local search methods, that view the elements of the search space as the vertices of a graph, with edges defined by a set of heuristics applicable...

Zero-order methods use only function evaluations (i.e., a value oracle) - not derivatives:: sec.5  Ternary search: pick some two points b,c such that a<b<c<z...

in a multidimensional space. It is a direct search method (based on function comparison) and is often applied to nonlinear optimization problems for which...

option of limiting a search to specific types of results, such as images, videos, or news. For a search provider, its engine is part of a distributed computing...

In computer science, local search is a heuristic method for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Local search can be used on problems that...

method in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Method (Ancient Greek: μέθοδος, methodos, from μετά/meta "in pursuit or quest of" + ὁδός/hodos "a method,...

Man's Search for Meaning (German: ... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen. Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, lit. '... Say Yes to Life: A Psychologist...

The method minimises the function by a bi-directional search along each search vector, in turn. The bi-directional line search along each search vector...

Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order iterative algorithm for minimizing a differentiable multivariate...

simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming.[failed verification] The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex...

derivatives of a multivariate function when used to search for zeros or the Hessian matrix when used for finding extrema. Quasi-Newton methods, on the other...

Flight 370 led to a multinational search effort in Southeast Asia and the southern Indian Ocean that became the most expensive search in aviation history...

linear search or sequential search is a method for finding an element within a list. It sequentially checks each element of the list until a match is...

The golden-section search is a technique for finding an extremum (minimum or maximum) of a function inside a specified interval. For a strictly unimodal...

first expounded in his essay Search for a Method (1957). Critique of Dialectical Reason and Search for a Method were written as a common manuscript, with Sartre...

the optimum. If a greedy algorithm can be proven to yield the global optimum for a given problem class, it typically becomes the method of choice because...

line-search methods: trust-region methods first choose a step size (the size of the trust region) and then a step direction, while line-search methods first...

Trigram search is a method of searching for text when the exact syntax or spelling of the target object is not precisely known or when queries may be...

results, what people search for, the actual search queries or keywords typed into search engines, and which search engines are preferred by a target audience...

analysis, the Newton–Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding algorithm which...

Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web...

bioinformatics. In practice, the method of feasible string-search algorithm may be affected by the string encoding. In particular, if a variable-width encoding...

Tabu search (TS) is a metaheuristic search method employing local search methods used for mathematical optimization. It was created by Fred W. Glover in...

algorithm is an iterative method for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Like the related Davidon–Fletcher–Powell method, BFGS determines the...

used as a starting point for more rapidly converging methods. The method is also called the interval halving method, the binary search method, or the...

incremental search, also known as hot search, incremental find or real-time suggestions, is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and...

use of a penalty method. However, search steps taken by the unconstrained method may be unacceptable for the constrained problem, leading to a lack of...

search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given...