Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming Theory and Applications

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Theory & Appli­ cations (MOPGP'02) held in Nara, Japan on June 4-7, 2002. Eighty-two people from 16 countries attended the conference and 78 papers (including 9 plenary talks) were presented. MOPGP is an international conference within which researchers and prac­ titioners can meet and learn from each other about the recent development in multi-objective programming and goal programming. The participants are from different disciplines such as Optimization, Operations Research, Math­ ematical Programming and Multi-Criteria Decision Aid, whose common in­ terest is in multi-objective analysis. The first MOPGP Conference was held at Portsmouth, United Kingdom, in 1994. The subsequent conferenes were held at Torremolinos, Spain in 1996, at Quebec City, Canada in 1998, and at Katowice, Poland in 2000. The fifth conference was held at Nara, which was the capital of Japan for more than seventy years in the eighth century. During this Nara period the basis of Japanese society, or culture established itself. Nara is a beautiful place and has a number of historic monuments in the World Heritage List. The members of the International Committee of MOPGP'02 were Dylan Jones, Pekka Korhonen, Carlos Romero, Ralph Steuer and Mehrdad Tamiz.

I: Invited Papers.- Multiple Objective Combinatorial Optimization — A Tutorial.- Analysis of Trends in Distance Metric Optimisation Modelling for Operational Research and Soft Computing.- MOP/GP Approaches to Data Mining.- Computational Investigations Evidencing Multiple Objectives in Portfolio Optimization.- Behavioral Aspects of Decision Analysis with Application to Public Sectors.- Optimization Models for Planning Future Energy Systems in Urban Areas.- Multiple Objective Decision Making in Past, Present, and Future.- Dynamic Multiple Goals Optimization in Behavior Mechanism.- II: General Papers — Theory.- An Example-Based Learning Approach to Multi-Objective Programming.- Support Vector Machines using Multi Objective Programming.- On the Decomposition of DEA Inefficiency.- An Approach for Determining DEA Efficiency Bounds.- An Extended Approach of Multicriteria Optimization for MODM Problems.- The Method of Elastic Constraints for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization and its Application in Airline Crew Scheduling.- Some Evaluations Based on DEA with Interval Data.- Possibility and Necessity Measures in Dominance-based Rough Set Approach.- Simplex Coding Genetic Algorithm for the Global Optimization of Nonlinear Functions.- On Minimax and Maximin Values in Multicriteria Games.- Backtrack Beam Search for Multiobjective Scheduling Problem.- Cones to Aid Decision Making in Multicriteria Programming.- Efficiency in Solution Generation Based on Extreme Ray Generation Method for Multiple Objective Linear Programming.- Robust Efficient Basis of Interval Multiple Criteria and Multiple Constraint Level Linear Programming.- An Interactive Satisficing Method through the Variance Minimization Model for Fuzzy Random Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems.- On SaddlePoints of Multiobjective Functions.- An Application of Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming to Fuzzy AHP.- On Affine Vector Variational Inequality.- Graphical Illustration of Pareto Optimal Solutions.- An Efficiency Evaluation Model for Company System Organization.- Stackelberg Solutions to Two-Level Linear Programming Problems with Random Variable Coefficients.- On Inherited Properties for Vector-Valued Multifunctions.- Multicriteria Expansion of a Competence Set Using Genetic Algorithm.- Comparing DEA and MCDM Method.- Linear Coordination Method for Multi-Objective Problems.- Experimental Analysis for Rational Decision Making by Aspiration Level AHP.- Choquet Integral Type DEA.- Interactive Procedures in Hierarchical Dynamic Goal Programming.- Solution Concepts for Coalitional Games in Constructing Networks.- Multi-Objective Facility Location Problems in Competitive Environments.- Solving Portfolio Problems Based on Meta-Controled Boltzmann Machine.- Tradeoff Directions and Dominance Sets.- A Soft Margin Algorithm Controlling Tolerance Directly.- An Analysis of Expected Utility Based on Fuzzy Interval Data.- On Analyzing the Stability of Discrete Descriptor Systems via Generalized Lyapunov Equations.- Solving DEA via Excel.- III: General Papers — Applications.- Planning and Scheduling Staff Duties by Goal Programming.- An Interactive Approach to Fuzzy-based Robust Design.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for solving a capacity Constrained Truckload Transportation with crashed customer.- A Multi-Objective Programming Approach for Evaluating Agri-Environmental Policy.- Improve the Shipping Performance of Build-to-ORder (BTO) Product in Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing.- Competence Set Expansion for Obtaining Scheduling Plans in Intelligent Transportation Security Systems.-DEA for Evaluating the Current-period and Cross-period Efficiency of Taiwan’s Upgraded Technical Institutes.- Using DEA of REM and EAM for Efficiency Assessment of Technology Institutes Upgraded from Junior Colleges: The Case in Taiwan.- The Comprehensive Financial Risk Management in a Bank — Stochastic Goal Programming Optimization.- The Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Framework for E-Commerce.- A Study of Variance of Locational Price in a Deregulated Generation Market.- Pseudo-Criterion Approaches to Evaluating Alternatives in Mangrove Forests Management.- Energy-Environment-Cost Tradeoffs in Planning Energy Systems for an Urban Area.- DEA Approach to the Allocation of Various TV Commercials to Dayparts.- Analyzing Alternative Strategies of Semiconductor Final Testing.- A Discrete-Time European Options Model under Uncertainty in Financial Engineering.- Multipurpose Decision-Making in House Plan by Using AHP.