In linear programming, the objective function is the function that it is desired to maximize or minimize. The human interaction equivalent is what matters most.

A procedure is developed for representing competitive and noncompetitive market structures in linear programming models. Arbitrarily close approximations to nonlinear forms--in both the objective ...

This paper gives general conditions under which a collection of optimization problems, with the objective function and the constraint set depending on a parameter, has optimal solutions that are an ...