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...

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

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

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

algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested...

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...

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

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

Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and...

^{n}}\;f(x)} with the search directions defined by the gradient of the function at the current point. Examples of gradient methods are the gradient descent...

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...

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...

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...

addition to web search, Yandex provides a wide range of specialized search services. In 2009, Yandex launched MatrixNet, a new method of machine learning...

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...

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...

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...

Hyper Search is a method of link analysis for search engines. It was created by Italian researcher Massimo Marchiori. Massimo Marchiori, "The Quest for Correct...

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...

W. Peterson in 1957. Interpolation search resembles the method by which people search a telephone directory for a name (the key value by which the book's...

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

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...

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines...

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...

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...

many SEO methods that improve the quality and appearance of the content of web sites and serve content useful to many users. Search engines use a variety...