As businesses pivot in 2021 toward growth and new strategies, objective functions will be more important than ever to set priorities and define success.

Agreement on a single objective function enables a more rational, linear way of ratcheting up everyone’s best current thinking, minimizing the time spent on individuals’ emotions and personal ...

The perceived-objective association may be stronger for some individuals than for others, such that only weak associations are observed when these individuals are aggregated. In other words, certain ...

Kenneth Lange, David R. Hunter, Ilsoon Yang, Optimization Transfer Using Surrogate Objective Functions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 9, No ...

Carlos Romero, Multi-Objective and Goal-Programming Approaches as a Distance Function Model, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Mar., 1985), pp. 249-251 ...