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Constraints can make a hard optimization problem even harder. They restrict the solution space to a feasible subspace.
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Kramer, O. (2014). Constraints. In: A Brief Introduction to Continuous Evolutionary Optimization. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03422-5_4
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