Creates and returns an empty objective function with the sense specified by sense and with the name specified by name.

Namespace: ILOG.Concert
Assembly: ILOG.CPLEX (in ILOG.CPLEX.dll) Version: 22.1.1.0

Syntax

C#
IObjective Objective(
	ObjectiveSense sense,
	string name
)
Visual Basic
Function Objective ( _
	sense As ObjectiveSense, _
	name As String _
) As IObjective

Parameters

sense
Type: ILOG.Concert..::..ObjectiveSense
The optimization sense of the new objective.
name
Type: System..::..String
The name assigned to the new objective.

Return Value

The new zero objective.

Remarks

This method creates and returns an IObjective object with a zero expression and the specified optimization sense. The new IObjective object is assigned name as its name. This method is typically used in an application that applies column-wise modeling to fill in the objective function while creating the variables.

See Also