There’s an old adage in business: “Don’t tell me your priorities; show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what your priorities are.” In today’s data-driven environment, in which efficient resource ...

In linear programming, the objective function is the function that it is desired to maximize or minimize. The human interaction equivalent is what matters most. Agreement on that, and on the steps to ...

The input argument fun refers to an IML module that specifies a function that returns f, a vector of length m for least-squares subroutines or a scalar for other optimization subroutines. The returned ...

This paper presents three algorithms for solving linear programming problems in which some or all of the objective function coefficients are specified in terms of intervals. Which algorithm is ...

Claiming that the FOMC is closer to the goals its dual mandate prescribes, James Bullard shared a measured perspective at the Tennessee Bankers Association’s annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, on ...

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 34 (Aug. 24-30, 2002), pp. 3556-3559 (4 pages) Analysis of shifting cultivation in Tripura in the 19th century indicates that the 'full belly' type of ...

See "Nonlinear Optimization and Related Subroutines" for a listing of all NLP subroutines. See Chapter 11, "Nonlinear Optimization Examples," for a description of the inputs to and outputs of all NLP ...