On the Pareto optimum sensitivity analysis in multicriteria optimization

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 955-977

  Zhang, W H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directional derivative; Gradient projection method; Multicriteria optimization; Pareto optimum sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 85041126164     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.890     Document Type: Article

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