Programming theory is treated initially without any assumptions about the functions and with interpretation for production and activity analysis. By proof of a general theorem about optimal and ...

M4N asks: Is there a reason why functions in most (?) programming languages are designed to support any number of input parameters but only one return value? In most languages, it is possible to ...

Abstract A new characterization of the exact minimax penalty function method is presented. The exactness of the penalization for the exact minimax penalty function method is analyzed in the context of ...