Interactive Multiobjective Optimization Under Uncertainty

G. Klein, H. Moskowitz and A. Ravindran
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G. Klein: Department of Business Analysis and Communication, College of Administration and Business, Louisiana Tech University, PO Box 10318, Ruston, Louisiana 71272-0046
H. Moskowitz: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
A. Ravindran: University of Oklahoma, 660 Parrington Oval, Room 104, Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Management Science, 1990, vol. 36, issue 1, 58-75

Abstract: Uncertainty presents unique difficulties in multiobjective optimization problems, because decision makers are faced with risky situations requiring analysis of multiple outcomes in differing states of nature. Very few direct choice (interactive) multiobjective methods are capable of addressing problems with probabilistic outcomes. We thus propose a general multiobjective algorithm which accommodates uncertainty. The method is appropriate for use in a multiple criteria framework with a discrete number of states of nature. Without loss of generality, and in the interest of simplicity of exposition, our method is explored and developed in the context of a bicriterion optimization problem using a two stage mathematical programming model. Simulation and behavioral experiments are conducted which verify that the method is viable for problems with greater dimensionality.

Keywords: interactive procedures; multicriteria problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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