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Engineers, analysts, and managers are often faced with the challenge of making tradeoffs between different factors in order to achieve desirable outcomes. Optimization is the process of choosing these tradeoffs in the “best” way. The notion of ‘different factors’ means that there are different possible solutions, and the notion of ‘achieving desirable outcomes’ means that there is an objective of seeking improvement on how to find the best solution. Therefore, in an optimization problem, different candidate solutions are compared and contrasted, which means that solution quality is fundamental.
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Onwubolu, G.C., Babu, B.V. (2004). Introduction. In: New Optimization Techniques in Engineering. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39930-8_1
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