Talk:Optimization (disambiguation)

I reckon programming optimization and mathematical optimization are such different topics they deserve different entries. What do others think? --Robert Merkel

My view is that generally, optimization refers to mathematical optimization. In addition, mathematical optimization is a very wide topic in operations research, much wider than programming optimization. Further, programming optimization can be viewed as a special case of mathematical optimization. Therefore, my suggestion is that programming optimization would be handled under Programming optimization and Optimization would refer to mathematical optimization (with a 'see also' link to programming optmization). Comments? --User:Tbackstr

I would agree; in CS most people talk about an optimizing x, e.g. an optimizing compiler. I've started a little blurb on convex optimization on this page --User:Iwnbap

It looks like the article "Mathematical programming" linked from here covers all of mathematical optimization. Should that text be moved here, or what?

I've begun a refactor unifying the two entries; as far as I can tell "optimization" is proably the correct place for this again, as I've seen "optimization" used a great deal for mathematical optimization/programming in general. -- User:Iwnbap

I agree; "mathematical programming" is an older term that's nowadays misleading, since there are of course many problems involving programming and mathematics which have nothing to do with optimization. 63.224.6.83

Other optimizations
Would it be reasonable to include process optimization and operations research in the disambiguation links? There's a lot of pages dealing with finding optimal solutions to business/engineering problems, which isn't exactly the same as optimization (mathematics). -- Hongooi 13:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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