Polynomial Based Optimisation

Note that the results of the maximum profit problem obtained using the techniques presented above will be close to those determined by rigorous optimisation method (using the techniques presented in Mujtaba and Macchietto, 1993, 1996) only if the polynomial approximations are very good as were the case for the example presented here. Mujtaba et al. (2004) presented Neural Network based approximations of these functions. 

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