Method of forces for direction finding in interactive multicriterion optimization applications

DOI10.1007/BF00940071MaRDI QIDQ911998zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marvin D. Troutt, Roy J. Clinton, Tom Hemming

Publication date 1991

Published in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00940071

zbMATH Keywords

directional statisticselectronic spreadsheetgradient directionmethod of direction findingmulticriterion interactive optimizationproduction planning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Multi-objective and goal programming (90C29) Nonlinear programming (90C30) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90)

Review text

The main purpose of this paper is to derive, illustrate, and validate a method of direction finding for use in multicriterion interactive optimization applications. A secondary purpose is to consider electronic spreadsheet operation as an instance of interactive multicriterion optimization and to test the new method in a spreadsheet model for aggregate production planning. The method derived here amounts to virtual direct specification of the gradient direction, but does so by an appeal to the simple physical notion of forces applied to the criteria. It is demonstrated that the idea is easily grasped and also gives effective performance in the application tested.

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