Deterministic searches

In many cases a type of deterministic search is conducted, where all probable structures are entered individually and minimized separately. The possible structures are generated by drawing all possible combinations of the chair, boat and skew boat conformers for six-membered rings, and X and S conformers for five-mem-beredrings116 37 64-107 1081. 

Scanning of a potential energy surface (see potential energy surface). The methods currently used include random search (stochastic search, e. g., Monte Carlo methods) and molecular dynamics (see deterministic search, Monte Carlo search, stochastic search, molecular dynamics, scanning an energy surface). 

Random search of an energy surface (see conformational search, deterministic search, Monte Carlo search, molecular dynamics). 

Deterministic search Systematic scanning of the potential energy surface, that is, generation of starting geometries by systematic variation of internal coordinates followed by structure optimization (see Potential energy surface and Conformational search). 

Define a CFG by hand and use a deterministic search algorithm (i.e. the parser) to find the parse or parses which best fit the input... 

Non-deterministic search such as search with genetic algorithm and others. It can be used for large data sets. 

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