Overview
- Concise introduction to the fundamentals of Goal Programming
- Brings the field completely up to date
- Exercises, with solutions at accompanying website, make it suitable as a text or reference
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 141)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Practical Goal Programming is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a text and reference, its nine chapters first provide a brief history, fundamental definitions, and underlying philosophies, and then detail the goal programming variants and define them algebraically. Chapter 3 details the step-by-step formulation of the basic goal programming model, and Chapter 4 explores more advanced modeling issues and highlights some recently proposed extensions.
Chapter 5 then details the solution methodologies of goal programming, concentrating on computerized solution by the Excel Solver and LINGO packages for each of the three main variants, and includes a discussion of the viability of the use of specialized goal programming packages. Chapter 6 discusses the linkages between Pareto Efficiency and goal programming. Chapters 3 to 6 are supported by a set of ten exercises, and an Excel spreadsheet giving the basic solution of each example is available at an accompanying website.
Chapter 7 details the current state of the art in terms of the integration of goal programming with other techniques, and the text concludes with two case studies which were chosen to demonstrate the application of goal programming in practice and to illustrate the principles developed in Chapters 1 to 7. Chapter 8 details an application in healthcare, and Chapter 9 describes applications in portfolio selection.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Goal Programming
Authors: Dylan Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5771-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5770-2Published: 22 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2570-0Published: 03 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5771-9Published: 10 March 2010
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 170
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT in Business, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Optimization, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
Industry Sectors: Automotive, Biotechnology, Finance, Business & Banking, IT & Software, Pharma, Telecommunications