Search Space

Search space may refer to one of the following.

  • In optimization, the domain of the function to be optimized
  • In search algorithms of computer science, the solution space defined by the set of all possible candidate solutions
  • In computational geometry, part of the input data in geometric search problems

Famous quotes containing the words search and/or space:

    When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.
    William James (1842–1910)