## APM.SENSITIVITY - APMonitor Option

 Type: Integer, Input
Default Value: 1
Description: Sensitivity Analysis
0=Off
1=On


SENSITIVITY determines whether a sensitivity analysis is performed as a post-processing step. The sensitivity analysis results are accessed either through the web-interface with the SENS tab or by retrieving the sensitivity.txt or sensitivity.htm files. The sensitivity is a measure of how the FV and MV values influence the objective function, SV, and CV final values. Another file, sensitivity_all.txt contains sensitivities for all of the dependent variable values with respect to the FV and MV values.

Lewis, N.R., Hedengren, J.D., Haseltine, E.L., Hybrid Dynamic Optimization Methods for Systems Biology with Efficient Sensitivities, Special Issue on Algorithms and Applications in Dynamic Optimization, Processes, 2015, 3(3), 701-729; doi:10.3390/pr3030701. Article

Safdarnejad, S. M., Gallacher, J. R., Hedengren, J. D., Dynamic Parameter Estimation and Optimization for Batch Distillation, Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 86, pp. 18–32, 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2015.12.001. Article