lecture05: Optimization Introduction

Note that this course assumes that you already know something about optimization. If you don't, you'd better come and talk to me about it so I can assing you some extra reading to catch up.

Topics covered

• Simple example
• Bigger problems
• Optimization
• High-level view of problems we have
• Meta-heuristics %
• Simple algorithms
• Simple Set Notation
• Optimization Notation
• Other Notation