Basic Local Search

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

Solver includes classes and functions that perform local search. Local search methods are algorithms that take a solution to a problem, and attempt to improve it with a variety of usually small, local changes.

In general, algorithms of this kind are not guaranteed to find optimal solutions. However, they can be useful for finding good solutions quickly. This chapter describes Solver's local search features and tells how to get the most out of them.