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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:56:35+00:00

I am evaluating Wolfram Mathematica 8 for a university course project. I am having

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I am evaluating Wolfram Mathematica 8 for a university course project.

I am having difficulties to define a Goal Programming model.
First because I am really scarce in math 🙂 Second, because what I found in the official documentation (look for “Multiobjective Optimization: Goal Programming”) is poor.

I am trying to define a little model for allocation of resources in maintenance phase of a software project. This is the informal model definition:

Informal Goal Programming model

Don’t worry about the Curly Phi function. It is an activation function that returns 1 if the number of hours exceeds a threshold. The threshold is the average number of hours that a bug needs in order to be solved.

Please don’t comment about the usefulness of this model: it is not an objective of the course. Moreover, the number of hours here is casual, for testing.

I am requesting help to express this informal model into a Mathematica Goal Programming model. That is, I am having problems with the syntax and the built-in functions.

Please comment here if you need additional information, I will provide them.

For moderators: the tags linear-goal-programming and model-definition could be useful here but I don’t have the reputation to create them.

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    Here is how I solved it. Probably 🙂 My professor will tell.

    Of course it is not elegant, keep in mind that I am using Mathematica since a couple of weeks and I have never done such type of development before.

    It uses a regular Goal Programming model like the one proposed by Ignizio, J.P. (1978).

    There is just one “step” of minimization for now.

    I provide the screenshots, if some of you is interested in the source-code just write a comment with some contact details.

    GP model part 1
    GP model part 2

    1: A Review of Goal Programming: A Tool for Multiobjective Analysis.
    James P. Ignizio
    The Journal of the Operational Research Society , Vol. 29, No. 11 (Nov., 1978), pp. 1109-1119 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3009359

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