The process of algorithmizing.

present participle of algorithmize

(computing theory) A concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication.

plural of ziggurat algorithm

(computing theory) A recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first backtracking algorithm for solving the decision problem of whether an exact cover exists.

(mathematics) An algorithm for finding sums of hypergeometric terms that are themselves hypergeometric terms.

(statistical mechanics) A criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of microstates of a thermodynamic system by minimizing the average log probability ⟨ ln p_i⟩=∑ᵢp_i ln p_i,, subject to the probability distribution pᵢ satisfying a set of constraints (usually expectation values) corresponding to the known macroscopic quantities.

(computing theory) An algorithm for matrix multiplication.

(statistics) An algorithm for pseudorandom number sampling, relying on an underlying source of uniformly-distributed random numbers as well as computed tables.

(mathematics) Any algorithm that uses randomness as part of its logic.