Objective Function

Rodriguez-Fernandez, Maria; Doyle, Francis J.

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Objective Function

Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez⁵ &
Francis J. Doyle III⁵

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Cost function; Criterion function; Optimality criterion

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In the field of mathematical optimization, the objective function is the performance index which quantifies the quality of a solution defined by a set of decision variables, i.e., the function to be maximized or minimized in an optimization problem (Banga 2008).

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Banga JR (2008) Optimization in computational systems biology. BMC Syst Biol 2:47
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-5100, USA
Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez & Prof. Francis J. Doyle III

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Correspondence to Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez .

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Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
Werner Dubitzky
Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Olaf Wolkenhauer
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Kwang-Hyun Cho
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Hiroki Yokota

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Rodriguez-Fernandez, M., Doyle, F.J. (2013). Objective Function. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1420

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