Extremist vs. centrist decision behavior: Quasi-convex utility functions for interactive multi-objective linear programming problems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 2003-2021

  Malakooti, Behnam ^a   Al alwani, Jumah E ^b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Extremist decision behavior; Multiple criteria decision making; Non linear multi objective optimization; Paired comparison; Quasi convex utility functions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MOLP);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

ALGORITHM;

EID: 0036885575     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(01)00070-3     Document Type: Article

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