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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. byGeoffrey C. Fox
What is the shape of the objective function?
Correlated or uncorrelated minima?
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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