hillclimbing

Noun

 * 1)  A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
 * 2)  The act of climbing a hill.
 * 3)  A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.
 * 1)  A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.