Diagramming qualitative goals for multiobjective project selection in large-scale systems

Systems Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-86

  Martinez, Lauro J ^a,b   Joshi, Nilesh N ^c   Lambert, James H ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interactive methods; multiobjective combinatorial optimization; multiobjective programming; path diagrams; portfolio diversification; project selection; systems engineering

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE METHODS; MULTIOBJECTIVE COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; PATH DIAGRAMS; PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION; PROJECT SELECTION;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79251508881     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20164     Document Type: Article

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