Finding optimized value from a set of values

I have some values of a particular feature of different objects. I need to find out an optimized value from these. Could you please suggest me any algorithms or tools to obtain it. Plz help me.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/optimization.html

http://www.mathworks.com/products/optimization/

http://www.mathworks.com/products/global-optimization/

See also Particle Swarm, Artificial Bee Colony, Ant Colony Optimization, Krill Herd, and others.