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"I suppose there are bigger problems with formulating the objective function than consumer preferences." Maybe producer preferences? The fact that one prefers
by leghifla 8y ago
"I suppose there are bigger problems with formulating the objective function than consumer preferences."
Maybe producer preferences?
The fact that one prefers to be a mechanic or a nurse does not influence the planning algorithm (AFAIK): people are just pawns on a chess board, like any other resources.
- guiriduro 8y agoIs that necessarily so? You could argue that producer preferences are some kind of soft constraint that can be maximised (albeit subsidiary to the hard constraint solution)
- leghifla 8y agoMaybe, but I struggle to find a way to express preferences without information about price. And it will add a few hundred million more variables into the optimization problem.