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What is the difference between "Design Function" and "Objective Function" in the study of Optimization?

user366312
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  • "to minimize some design function". This implies that we may have more than one function used to "describe" (design) the problem. We select one of them : the objective function to be optimized. – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Oct 17 '18 at 12:01

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In the link you provided, design functions are the objective function and constraints for the optimization problem. Objective function is just the design function being minimized (or maximized).

I am not used to seeing such terminology, but this appears to be what is intended in the link.

Mark L. Stone
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