Research Article

An Improved Geometric Programming Approach for Optimization of Biochemical Systems

Table 2

Comparisons between our proposed algorithm and the method in [14] for Case study 1.

Proposed method[14]
Initial auxiliary 
variable
IterationsObjective valueInitial auxiliary 
variable
IterationsObjective value

195.1690270a
1.195.1690270.1145.169027
1.255.1690270.2145.169027
1.355.1690270.3145.169027
1.455.1690270.4145.169027
1.555.1690270.5145.169027
1.655.1690270.6145.169027
1.755.1690270.7145.169027
1.855.1690270.8145.169027
1.955.1690270.9145.169027
1.9955.1690270.99145.169027

The method in [14] does not allow because of the auxiliary variable being imposed in the implementation of this algorithm.