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What is Local Optimization

Chapter 147
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
A feasible solution is a local optimum if there are no other feasible solutions with a better function value in the immediate neighborhood. A local optimum may be either maximum or local minimum.
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Nonlinear Programming
Xiaofeng Zhao (University of Mary Washington, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch147
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