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Technical Note—Note on Constrained Maximization of a Sum

Alan R. Washburn
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Alan R. Washburn: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

Operations Research, 1981, vol. 29, issue 2, 411-414

Abstract: Use of a Lagrange multiplier in optimization problems often requires a search with the object of finding the multiplier for which some constraint is met. We introduce a technique that, under some severe assumptions, finds the correct multiplier in a finite number of steps.

Date: 1981
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