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...

In computer science, a search algorithm is an algorithm designed to solve a search problem. Search algorithms work to retrieve information stored within...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

an iterative method is a mathematical procedure that uses an initial value to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions for a class of problems...

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...

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

Monte Carlo methods have been developed into a technique called Monte-Carlo tree search that is useful for searching for the best move in a game. Possible...

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...

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...

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...

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...