Yet, there are obvious synergies between the three policy areas that can be emphasized and strengthened to promote policy coherence and facilitate convergence of objectives in implementation (ICSU and ISSC 2015).
The analysis and comparison of the effectiveness of methods that facilitate the convergence of objectives and priorities between clinicians and administrators, in terms of drug cost control mechanisms, is another issue worth studying [ 48].
Open image in new window Fig. 12 Convergence of the objective function OF2 Open image in new window Fig. 13 Convergence of the objective function OF4.
In this paper, we develop an approximation method to compute the objective function of the two-stage FMRP, and discuss the convergent results about the use of the approximation method in FMRP, including the convergence of the objective value, optimal value, and the optimal solutions.
Analytical expressions have been derived for calculating the directional derivatives, which ensure rapid convergence of the objective function.
Moreover, the multi-criteria category represents the convergence of several objective functions, such as cost and performance.
Incorporating optimization in the simulation algorithm decreases the solving time and brings faster convergence of the objective values.
Although it is not possible to prove general convergence for all our test instances, we observe fast convergence of the objective values for the proposed hybrid approach.
Figure 9 elucidates not only the convergence of the objective function, but also the minimum acceptable value of 0.00000456 was achieved after 593 iterations.
The convergence of the objective function and sensitivity analysis were examined for varying user-specified parameters of GA (population size, methods of selection, reproduction, crossover, mutation and generation).
