CallMeIshmael
11-25-2005, 10:44 PM
Hey all...
I have some programming experience, and the project Im currently working on needs to optimize a sum.
Basically, Im looking at a large group of equations, and then want to maximize a sum over some (or all) of the variables.
For example, given:
a + b + c = 1
x + y + z = b
l + m = y
maximize the value of:
4a + b - 2c + x + y +5z - l + m
But, with many many more equations.
This seems like something that would be a fairly common problem in programming, and there should be some good sites/algorithms dedicated to this process.
But, I dont even know what this is called /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Can anyone point me in a good direction here??
(FWIW, I have a decent understanding of basic linear algebra, since it seems like that might be useful here)
I have some programming experience, and the project Im currently working on needs to optimize a sum.
Basically, Im looking at a large group of equations, and then want to maximize a sum over some (or all) of the variables.
For example, given:
a + b + c = 1
x + y + z = b
l + m = y
maximize the value of:
4a + b - 2c + x + y +5z - l + m
But, with many many more equations.
This seems like something that would be a fairly common problem in programming, and there should be some good sites/algorithms dedicated to this process.
But, I dont even know what this is called /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Can anyone point me in a good direction here??
(FWIW, I have a decent understanding of basic linear algebra, since it seems like that might be useful here)