Goal programming model for agricultural land allocation problems

International Journal of Modelling and Simulation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-48

  Sharma, D K ^a   Gaur, A ^b   Ghosh, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

^b RAJ KUMAR GOEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Ministry of Communications and Information Technology   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL PLAN; LEXICOGRAPHIC GOAL PROGRAMMING (LGP); OPTIMAL ALLOCATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 40749137794     PISSN: 02286203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02286203.2008.11442448     Document Type: Article

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