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This paper gives general conditions under which a collection of optimization problems, with the objective function and the constraint set depending on a parameter, has optimal solutions that are an isotone function of the parameter. Relating to this, we present a theory that explores and elaborates on the problem of minimizing a submodular function on a lattice.
Donald M. Topkis (Sat,) studied this question.