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Foil 5 Some Overall Questions Relevant In Classisfying Optimization Problems and Methods

From Physical Optimization and Physical Computation CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 What is the shape of the objective function?
  • Correlated or uncorrelated minima?
2 Do you need the
  • exact global minimum
  • an approximate minimum
  • In this case, do you want solution to always be within some tolerance of exact solution
  • or, on the average, to be within tolerance
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