Re: Optimization with symbolic paramters
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- Subject: [mg81148] Re: Optimization with symbolic paramters
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:31:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Thummim Cho wrote: > Hi, I have Mathematica 5.2. > > I am trying to maximize a nonlinear function of two variables and symbolic paramters (i have symbols instead of numbers as paramters) under one weak inequality constraint (this constraint is also in the symbol paramters). > > How can I use Mathematica to solve this? If this is not possible on Mathematica 5.2, does Mathematica 6.0 provide this feature? Version 6 should be what you need. According to the marketing blurb, "Optimization: Integrated into Mathematica are a full range of state-of-the-art local and global optimization techniques, both numeric and symbolic, including constrained nonlinear optimization, interior point methods and integer programming=E2=80=94as well as original symbolic methods. Mathematica's symbolic architecture provides seamless access to industrial-strength system and model optimization, efficiently handling million-variable linear programming, and multi-thousand-variable nonlinear problems." Note that the whole documentation is freely available online. Especially, have a look at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Optimization.html Also, the tutorial "Constrained Optimization" might be worth checking to. See http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/ConstrainedOptimizationOverview.html Regards, -- Jean-Marc