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The optimization engine exposes several settings that you can change to influence how the search for the optimum proceeds and when it terminates. The specific collection of available settings is a function of which engine is used to solve the optimization, so that if you install and use an add-on engine, other than the engine that comes standard with Analytica Optimizer, the possible settings might be different. The [http://wiki.analytica.com/index.php?title=OptInfo OptInfo]() function can be used to view current values for a problem.

To see this, define a variable as:
 <nowiki>   OptInfo(Opt, "Settings")</nowiki>
Where Opt identifies the variable containing the [http://wiki.analytica.com/index.php?title=DefineOptimization DefineOptimization]() function.

Settings can be changed for a particular problem by specifying values for the <code>SettingName</code> and <code>SettingValue</code> parameters to [http://wiki.analytica.com/index.php?title=DefineOptimization DefineOptimization](). The first subsection below describes how you specify and view settings, while the subsequent sub-sections detail particular settings used by engines the come standard with Analytica Optimizer.

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