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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Zeleny, Milan
Affiliations: Graduate School of Business Administration, GBA 626E, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023, USA. E-mail: zeleny@mary.fordham.edu
Note: [1] The author is obliged to Prof. Alan Singer of Christchurch, NZ, for his encouragement and insights into the formalism and philosophy of the optimality concepts.
Abstract: Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is firmly rooted in an alternative concept of optimality where multiple (rather than single) criteria characterize the notion of “the best” (or optimal), as is prevalent in the areas of economics, engineering, management and business. These are often constrained problems where search for an optimal solution requires some form of evaluating criteria performance tradeoffs. Because there are no tradeoffs along a single criterion, optimality is an essentially multi-criteria concept. In this paper we extend and develop the notion of optimum as a balance among multiple criteria. We introduce eight different, separate and mutually irreducible optimality concepts in a classification scheme where the traditional single-objective optimality is only a special case. These eight optimality concepts provide a useful initiatory framework for the future MCDM research and applications.
Keywords: Optimality, optimization, optimal design, linear programming, multiple criteria decision making
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1998-17203
Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 97-107, 1998
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