Goal Programming (GP) is perhaps the oldest and most widely used approach within the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm. GP combines the logic of optimisation in mathematical programming with the decision maker's desire to satisfy several goals. The primary purpose of this book is to identify the critical issues in GP and to demonstrate different procedures capable of avoiding or mitigating the inherent pitfalls associated with these issues. The outcome of a search of the literature shows many instances where GP models produced misleading or even erroneous results simply because of a careless formulation of the problem. Rather than being in itself a textbook, Critical Issues in Goal Programming is designed to complement existing textbooks. It will be useful to students and researchers with a basic knowledge of GP as well as to those interested in building GP models which analyse real decision problems.
- ISBN10 0080406610
- ISBN13 9780080406619
- Publish Date 18 January 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Pergamon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 136
- Language English