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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2004
Tyson R. Mcguffin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas W. Chen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Tyson R. McGuffin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas W. Chen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods associated with costs of a selected objective are disclosed. One embodiment of a system may comprise a constraint evaluator that evaluates a value set associated with a plurality of objectives to determine if a non-selected objective has violated at least one constraint. The system may further comprise a cost function configurable to evaluate a cost associated with the value set at a first cost range if the value set violates the at least one constraint associated with the non-selected objective, and to evaluate a cost associated with the value set at a second cost range associated with the selected objective if the value set does not violate the at least one constraint associated with the non-selected objective, such that the second cost range is different from the first cost range.