Analytica Optimizer Guide

This Guide explains how to use the Analytica Optimizer. It provides a Quick Start Tutorial and an introduction to the basic concepts of optimization, including linear, quadratic, and nonlinear programming (NLP), as well as special topics in NLP. However, it is not a complete textbook on optimization. For more challenging applications, you might find it useful to consult one of the many good textbooks on optimization.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Quick Start
3. Optimization Characteristics
4. Optimizing with Arrays
5. Key Concepts: The Airline NLP Example
6. Optimizer Attribute Reference
7. Optimizer Function Reference
8. Control Settings

Using this Guide

Under the title of each page on this guide, the page's hierarchy and any parent pages are listed.

The pages in this guide can be read in any order. However, if you want to read the guide sequentially, there are links to the previous and next pages at the bottom of each page which will take the reader through all of the guide's pages in order.

Throughout this guide, we use a shorthand notation for displaying the definitions of Analytica objects. An object’s class (e.g., Variable, Decision, Constraint, etc) and identifier is followed by :=, and the definition is displayed on the right.

In the above example, a Constraint object class with the identifier Volume Constraint is defined as Volume >= Required Volume.