Optimization (disambiguation)
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Optimization, optimisation, or optimality may refer to:
- Mathematical optimization, the theory and computation of extrema or stationary points of functions
- Engineering optimization, the use of optimization techniques to aid the engineering design process
Economics and business
- Optimality, in economics
- Profit
- Utility
- Economic efficiency
- Pareto optimality, or Pareto efficiency, a concept used in economics, game theory, engineering, and the social sciences
- Process optimization, in business and engineering, methodologies for improving the efficiency of a production process
- Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept
Information technology
- Program optimization, improving software to make it work more efficiently or use fewer resources
- Compiler optimization, improving the performance or efficiency of compiled code
- Asymptotically optimal algorithm, an algorithm that is at most a constant factor worse than the best possible algorithm for large input sizes
- Search engine optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings
- Image search optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of an image in image search engine listings
Other
- Optimality theory, in linguistics, a model proposing that observed forms of language arise from the interaction of conflicting constraints
- Optimization (role-playing games), a gaming play style
Optimum may refer to:
- Optimum Releasing, a film and DVD distribution company based in the UK
- Optimum TV, the brand name of a suite of digital media services offered by Cablevision Systems Corporation
- Optimum PR, a division of Cossette, Inc., a public-relations organization
See also
- Maximization (disambiguation)
- Management science
- Minimization (disambiguation)
- Operations research
- Optimum (disambiguation)
- Formal science
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