Optimization or optimality may refer to: Relating to improving performance: - Optimization (mathematics), the process of finding function extrema to solve problems
- Program optimization, improving a system to reduce runtime, bandwidth, memory requirements, or other property of a system; in particular:
- Asymptotically optimal algorithm, an algorithm that is at most a constant factor worse than the best possible algorithm for large input sizes
- Optimization (Infrastructure & Application Platform), in IT, a process for assessing an organization's IT infrastructure and application platform across capabilities
- Search engine optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings
- Image search optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of an image in image search engine listings
- Process optimization, in business and engineering, methodologies for improving the efficiency of a production process
- Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept
- Optimality theory, in linguistics, a model proposing that observed forms of language arise from the interaction of conflicting constraints
- Pareto efficiency, or Pareto optimality, a concept used in economics, game theory, engineering and the social sciences
- Optimality, in economics; see utility and economic efficiency
Optimum may refer to: - Optimum Releasing, a film and DVD distribution company based in the UK
- Optimum TV, the brand name of a suite of digital media services offered by Cablevision Systems Corporation
- Optimum PR, a division of Cossette, Inc., a public relations organization
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