Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming

Goal Programming (GP) is perhaps the oldest and most widely used approach within the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm.\n\nGP combines the logic of optimisation in mathematical programming with the decision maker's desire to satisfy several goals. The primary purpose of this book is to identify the critical issues in GP and to demonstrate different procedures capable of avoiding or mitigating the inherent pitfalls associated with these issues. The outcome of a search of the literature shows many instances where GP models produced misleading or even erroneous results simply because of a careless formulation of the problem. Rather than being in itself a textbook, Critical Issues in Goal Programming is designed to complement existing textbooks. It will be useful to students and researchers with a basic knowledge of GP as well as to those interested in building GP models which analyse real decision problems.Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming is written by C. Romero and published by Pergamon. ISBNs for Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming are 9781483295114, 1483295117 and the print ISBNs are 9780080406619, 0080406610.