Practical Goal Programming

• Main Authors: Jones, Dylan (Author), Tamiz, Mehrdad (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 141
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Optimization.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

Practical Goal Programming is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a text...

Table of Contents:

• History and Philosophy of Goal Programming
• Goal Programming Variants
• Formulating Goal Programmes
• Advanced Topics in Goal Programming Formulation
• Solving and Analysing Goal Programming Models
• Detection and Restoration of Pareto Inefficiency
• Trend of Integration and Combination of Goal Programming
• Case Study: Application of Goal Programming in Health Care
• Case Study: Application of Goal Programming in Portfolio Selection.