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Documentation should say explicitly that costs in #maximize are turned negative by their compilation to #minimize statements. #24

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chenkins opened this issue Mar 26, 2020 · 1 comment
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From a modeller's perspective, who sees #maximize, this seems counter-intuitive and should be made explicit.

The following section should be expanded:

Note that, with #maximize statements in the input, this correlation might be less straightforward because they are compiled into #minimize statements in the process of generating smodels format [80].

Add something like

In the solver output, costs which are maximized are output as their negative counterpart (which is minimized). Example....
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Merci vielmals, @chenkins!

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