sense

Whether to minimize or maximize each objective function

Specification

  • Alias: None

  • Arguments: STRINGLIST

  • Default: vector values = ‘minimize’

Description

The sense keyword is used to declare whether each objective function should be minimized or maximized. The argument options are:

  • "minimization" (can be abbreviated to “min”)

  • "maximization" (can be abbreviated to “max”)

If a single string is specified it will apply to each objective function. Otherwise, the number of strings should either be equal to the number of objective functions ( objective_functions). Thus, when scalar and/or field responses are specified, the number of sense strings must equal the number of scalars plus the number of fields, not the total elements in the fields.