On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:54:31PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Is there any package to do multi-objective optimization? For instance,
> consider the following problem:
>
> maximize f(x,y) in order to x
>
> and
>
> maximize g(x,y) in order to y,
>
> simultaneously, with x and y being the same both for f and g. Can R do
> it numerically?
R can solve the following problem using optim, perhaps it helps you:
find x,y such that sqrt(g(x,y)^2+f(x,y)^2) is maximized.
Alternatively, you may want the following:
maximize f(x,y) varying both x and y. Then, holding x constant at the
previous value, maximize g(x,y) varying ONLY y.
This can be done in two steps in R. first use optim on f(x,y), then
when x is determined, create a new function (using "function") that
projects g(x,y) onto the fixed x value ie:
function(y) { g(best.x,y)}
and use optim to optimize this new function varying only y.
Hope this helps.
--
Daniel Lakeland
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