One topic of research that keeps popping up is the question of what the central bank objective function should be.

As businesses pivot in 2021 toward growth and new strategies, objective functions will be more important than ever to set priorities and define success.

Agreement on a single objective function enables a more rational, linear way of ratcheting up everyone’s best current thinking, minimizing the time spent on individuals’ emotions and personal ...

Leena Lankoski ¹², N. Craig Smith ², Alternative Objective Functions for Firms, Organization & Environment, Vol. 31, No. 3, Special Issue: Creating Value for ...

Although assertions have often been made about the objectives underlying the behavior of nonprofit firms, there has been no empirical confirmation of these assertions. This article proposes a way to ...

As with most optimization methods for nonconcave functions, the expectation maximization algorithm comes with guarantees only of convergence to a local maximum of the objective function (except in ...

Objective Function and Derivatives The input argument fun refers to an IML module that specifies a function that returns f, a vector of length m for least-squares subroutines or a scalar for other ...

You can improve business performance by aligning the objectives of purchasing management with your business strategies. At the strategic level, purchasing decisions affect profitability and ...