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n. In decision theory, game theory, etc. a decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain. vb. To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.
Wikipedia
Minimax (sometimes MinMax or MM) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case (maximum loss) scenario. Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision-making in the presence of uncertainty.
Minimax is a Central European children's channel, broadcast in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Iceland and Serbia. It launched in Hungary in 1996 and aired in Poland from 1999 to 2004. In Hungary, as of April 2007, it timeshares the channel slot with anime channel Animax after 8 PM. Previously, Minimax timeshared the channel with MusicMax, Game One, iTV Hungary, and m+, now known as Cool TV. Minimax airs in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The first look was animated by in 1996. On March 27, 2013, Minimax unveiled a new 3D logo.
Minimax's policy goals include edutainment and non-violent programming.
Minimax is a strategy in decision theory and related disciplines.
Minimax, minmax, or min-max can also refer to:
Minimax was first aired in Spain in 1993 and encrypted using the Nagravision encryption system from the SES Satellites 1B and 1C at 19.2 degrees east. The channel was part of the Canal Satellite España (now Canal+) channel bundle, which included CineMania, CineClassics, Documania and later SportMania. In 1996, Minimax began airing "Nickelodeon en Minimax", a small segment of Nickelodeon branded programmes with Spanish dubbing, including Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life.
Usage examples of "minimax".
It was not weakness as far as game theory was concerned, because in the absence of minimax solutions there was no decision better than one purely random.
But if the reward function in the endgame is total destruction, the minimax falls to zero.
You and DEUS rose to such heights of sophistication with your game theory, minimax, quantified decisional space, that no notice was taken of the little pocket mirrors children play with, catching the sunlight.
History editors, minimax censors, grandfather bombs, and a really nasty toy called a spacelike ablator.
There was not sufficient water in the cellar so we used Minimax hand fire-extinguishers to try to hold back the fire.
Pellig consisted of a variety of human minds, altering personalities hooked to an intricate switch-mechanism, coming and going at random, in chance formation, without pattern, Minimax, randomness, a deep blur of M-game theory .
He and Jill had made a deadly minimax decision in deciding on that range.
Isolating leaders meant infiltration, and to minimax the operation it would be best to let gunsels, for once, do the prelim work usually reserved for the FBI or other agencies.
Besides the external factors—the ambiguous technological sets, the minimax decisions and calculations consistent with optimizing logic—the reactions of the Quintans will be determined, also, by irrational factors of which we are completely ignorant.