A Tradeoff Cut Approach to Multiple Objective Optimization

K. Musselman and Joseph Talavage
Additional contact information
K. Musselman: Pritsker & Associates, West Lafayette, Indiana
Joseph Talavage: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Operations Research, 1980, vol. 28, issue 6, 1424-1435

Abstract: There is a need to develop user-oriented math programming techniques for resolution of decision problems in which several objectives must be considered. One approach, the Geoffrion-Dyer-Feinberg algorithm, allows interaction between the computer and the decision maker during the solution process. The interactive approach is adopted in this paper. However, our approach focuses on reducing the feasible region of the decision space rather than improving the stored image of the overall preference function. In so doing, the problem is reduced to a series of pairwise tradeoffs between the objectives. This obviates the need for any type of choice among vectors on the part of the decision maker and stays reasonably within his capability to supply necessary information for problem solution.

Date: 1980
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.28.6.1424 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:oropre:v:28:y:1980:i:6:p:1424-1435

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Operations Research from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().