@inbook{8d3ed7c1fec74fbbb9266d2cb540582f,
title = "Circuits and Cost Functions",
abstract = "In this chapter, we consider the notion of a circuit and the notion of a cost function for this circuit. The circuit builds a set of elements for the optimization (a set of feasible solutions) from one-element sets attached to input nodes using the operation of union of sets attached to unifying nodes and functional operations attached to functional nodes. The cost function corresponds a real number (a cost) to each element. Our goal is to minimize the cost.",
author = "Michal Mankowski and Mikhail Moshkov",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-63920-4_2",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Studies in Systems, Decision and Control",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "17--27",
booktitle = "Studies in Systems, Decision and Control",
address = "Germany",
}