CSCE 476/876, Spring 2004, Glossary 6

Assigned:  Monday, March 7, 2005.
Due:  Friday, March 11, 2005.
Note: Glossaries are optional but help you improve your grade.
  1. Crossover
  2. Current state
  3. Decision problem
  4. Fitness function
  5. Genetic algorithm
  6. Global optimum (maximum or minimum)
  7. Gradient ascent (or descent)
  8. Greedy local search
  9. Hill climing (stochastic, first-choice, random restart) (3 points)
  10. Local optimum
  11. Local beam search
  12. Local search
  13. Mutation
  14. Objective function (in an optimization problem)
  15. Optimization problem
  16. Plateau
  17. Sideway move
  18. Simulated annealing
  19. State space lanscape
Berthe Y. Choueiry
choueiry@cse.unl.edu