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...

This book presents adaptive solution methods for multiobjective optimization problems based on parameter dependent scalarization approaches. Readers will benefit from the new adaptive methods and ideas for solving multiobjective optimization.

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...

The mathematical programming approach called `goal programming' or GP has been in existence for over three decades. GP has been used to optimize decision making from Christmas trees to allocating the resources of a whole nation's agricultural industry. This book reviews the body of knowledge on...

Many optimization questions arise in economics and finance, an important example of this is the society's choice of the optimum state of the economy (the social choice problem). Optimization in Economics and Finance extends and improves the usual optimization techniques, in a form that may be...

This volume is a collection of selected papers which reflects the highlights of the 10th International Multiple Criteria Decision Making conference held in Taipei. The papers cover a wide range of topics and applications in which MCDM techniques have been used. The participants of the conference...