Ordinal Optimization
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-68692-9
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The purpose of this book is to address the difficulties of the optimization of complex systems via simulation models or other computation-intensive models involving possible stochastic effects and discrete choices. This book establishes distinct advantages of the "softer" ordinal approach for search-based type problems, analyzes its general properties, and shows the many orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency that is possible.
Subject: Computer Science, Alignment, Kolmogorov equivalence, Performance, Simulation, complex simulation models, exponential convergence, optimization, ordinal optimization, search based methods, universal alignment
