Evaluation function

An evaluation function in computer science or mathematics is:

• the size to be maximized or minimized in an optimization problem
  • more generally also a heuristic for an evaluation function of such a problem, especially in game theory a function for evaluating game situations for a player, see evaluation function (game theory)
• a term that can be used to define different classes of formal languages, see evaluation function (formal languages)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.