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:

    “The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)

    “As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)