Meanings
adjectivemultiextremal (not comparable)
- not comparablemathematicsHaving multiple extrema
Nature and evolutionary inspired metaheuristics are also not always successful in finding global solutions to these problems due to their multiextremal character.
2015, Dmitri E. Kvasov, Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, “Deterministic approaches for solving practical black-box global optimization problems”, in Advances in Engineering Software, volume 2015, pages 58–66
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