A feeling that good things will happen.

An allocation of resources such that no other allocation makes any one individual better off without making another worse off

Alternative form of suboptimality

(linguistics) A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.

(game theory, economics) Describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.

(mathematics) The problem of finding the "best" solution from all feasible solutions, given constraints defining which of the solutions are feasible, and a goal function defining which of the feasible solutions is the best one.

(programming, computer architecture) Optimization at the level of individual instructions and operations.

(transitive, programming) To omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.

plural of sub-optimality

plural of micro-optimization