Objective Function and Derivatives 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 ...

Richard E. Wendell, Arthur P. Hurter Jr., Minimization of a Non-Separable Objective Function Subject to Disjoint Constraints, Operations Research, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Jul ...

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