Multicriteria Optimization

• Main Author: Ehrgott, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Mathematical optimization.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

Decision makers in many areas, from industry to engineering and the social sector, face an increasing need to consider multiple, conflicting objectives in their decision processes. In many cases these real world decision problems can be formulated as multicriteria mathematical optimization models. T...

Table of Contents:

• Efficiency and Nondominance
• The Weighted Sum Method and Related Topics
• Scalarization Techniques
• Other Definitions of Optimality — Nonscalarizing Methods
• Introdcution to Multicriteria Linear Programming
• A Multiobjective Simplex Method
• Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization
• Multiobjective Versions of Polynomially Solvable Problems
• Multiobjective Versions of Some NP-Hard Problems.