Robert B. Gramacy, Herbert K. H. Lee, Bayesian Treed Gaussian Process Models with an Application to Computer Modeling, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 103, No. 483 (Sep., 2008), ...

On one level, a Gaussian process is a way of finding the optimal solution to certain problems. Underpinning another mathematical technique called Bayesian optimization---Bayes! Gauss!