Re: Constrained Optimization
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- Subject: [mg57659] Re: [mg57609] Constrained Optimization
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:33:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Caspar,
Don't you need to maximize over two variables?
f[x_, y_] := (x - x^2) y
Maximize[{f[x, y], 1/5 <= x <= 2/5, y > 0}, {x, y}]
{Infinity, {x -> Indeterminate, y -> Indeterminate}}
You still obtain an error message but that is because there is no maximum on
the domain.
If you restrict the y domain you will obtain a maximum.
Maximize[{f[x, y], 1/5 <= x <= 2/5, 0 < y <= 10}, {x, y}]
{12/5, {x -> 2/5, y -> 10}}
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
From: Caspar von Seckendorff [mailto:seckendorff at alphatec.de]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Hi,
I'd like to do constrained optimization with Mathematica 5.1 on a
function that is defined piecewise. Unfortunately Maximize[] does not
work as I expected. A short & simple example to illustrate:
f[x_,y_]:= (x-x^2) y
Maximize[{f[x, y], 1/5 <= x <= 2/5, y > 0}, x]
As a result I get:
"The objective function (x-x^2) y contains a nonconstant expression y
independent of variables {x}."
Obviously for this Maximization, knowing that y > 0 I can do the
following to get the desired value for x:
Maximize[{x-x^2, 1/5 <= x <= 2/5}, x]
Out[]= {6/25, {x -> 2/5}}
Is there a way to achieve this without manual intervention? The reason
is, that the functions I want to Maximize are defined Piecewise with
several constraints...
Thanks,
-Caspar