<p>This mono graph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as weIl as for the researchers who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research. This is a sequel to our previous work entitled "Multiple Objective Decision Making--Methods and
Multiple Objective Decision Making β Methods and Applications: A State-of-the-Art Survey
β Scribed by Ching-Lai Hwang, Abu Syed Md. Masud (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 365
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 164
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Decision making is the process of selecting a possible course of action from all the available alternatives. In almost all such problems the multiplicity of criteria for judging the alternatives is pervasive. That is, for many such problems, the decision maker (OM) wants to attain more than one objective or goal in selecting the course of action while satisfying the constraints dictated by environment, processes, and resources. Another characteristic of these problems is that the objectives are apparently nonΒ commensurable. Mathematically, these problems can be represented as: (1. 1 ) subject to: gi(~) ~ 0, ,', . . . ,. ! where ~ is an n dimensional decision variable vector. The problem consists of n decision variables, m constraints and k objectives. Any or all of the functions may be nonlinear. In literature this problem is often referred to as a vector maximum problem (VMP). Traditionally there are two approaches for solving the VMP. One of them is to optimize one of the objectives while appending the other objectives to a constraint set so that the optimal solution would satisfy these objectives at least up to a predetermined level. The problem is given as: Max f. ~) 1 (1. 2) subject to: where at is any acceptable predetermined level for objective t. The other approach is to optimize a super-objective function created by multiplying each 2 objective function with a suitable weight and then by adding them together.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages N2-XII
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Basic Concepts and Terminology....Pages 12-20
Methods for Multiple Objective Decision Making....Pages 21-283
Applications....Pages 284-302
Concluding Remarks....Pages 303-309
Bibliography....Pages 310-351
Back Matter....Pages 355-357
β¦ Subjects
Operations Research/Decision Theory; Economic Theory
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