| 释义 |
optimiˈzation
[f. optimize v. + -ation.]
The making the best (of anything); the action or process of rendering optimal; the state or condition of being optimal. Freq. attrib.
1857L. Hunt Let. to Browning in Athenæum (1883) 7 July 17/1 Wisdom, you know, is the optimization of knowledge, the turning it to its best and therefore least sad account. 1951Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action ii. ii. 123 An important superordinate problem concerning mechanisms which depend entirely on the learning—performance distinction (when this is taken as relevant to the over-all problem of the system—the optimization of gratification). 1959Times Rev. Industry June 39/2 Optimization problems (e.g. minimization of costs or maximization of profits). 1961Aeroplane CI. 725/1 These desiderata were then used in what the Americans delight in calling ‘optimization’ studies, to find the best of some 300 helicopter configurations. 1966S. Beer Decision & Control x. 211 Given this framework, the process of reaching the best decision is known as optimization. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 242/1 This resulted in a major advance known as optimization of treatment..which in essence is for the computer to give the radiotherapist a number of alternative plans, and for the radiotherapist to decide which he considers to be the most suitable. 1974Cooper & Steinberg Methods & Appl. Linear Programming i. 1 In an optimization problem we seek values of the..variables which do not violate the several constraints imposed on them, but which lead to an optimal (maximal or minimal) value of the function which is to be optimized. 1976Daily Times (Lagos) 22 Sept. 3/3 The socio-economic development of any nation depended on the optimisation and maximisation of land use. |