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Optimization glossary
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Optimization is a branch of mathematics which is concerned with finding maxima and minima of real-valued functions.
A function f: A 
R to be minimized or
maximized is called an objective function or a cost function.
The domain A of f is called the search space, while the elements of A are called candidate solutions or feasible solutions.
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