This book deals with complex problems in the fields of logistics and supply chain management and discusses advanced methods, especially from the field of computational intelligence (CI), for solving them. The first two chapters provide general introductions to logistics and supply chain...

Basic Concepts of Multi-objective Optimization -- Interactive Programming Methods for Multi-objective Optimization -- Generation of Pareto Frontier by Genetic Algorithms -- Multi-objective Optimization and Computational Intelligence -- Sequential Approximate Optimization -- Combining Aspiration...

This book concentrates on providing technical tools to make the user of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies independent of bulky optimization computations. These bulky computations have been a necessary, but limiting, characteristic of interactive MCDM methodologies and...