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Viadrina wrote:

>Hi, is someone working on constrained minimization of a function?
>

A first solution would be to consider using the Lagrangian / KT 
techniques but often it suffices to consider modifing the cost function 
in order to constrain parmeters, typically, a quadratic cost...