| Article ID: | iaor1996423 |
| Country: | Greece |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 297 |
| End Page Number: | 300 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1994 |
| Journal: | Studies In Regional and Urban Planning |
| Authors: | Plastria Frank |
| Keywords: | programming: multiple criteria, programming: nonlinear |
The optimal location of a plant producing noxious pollution requires the optimisation of a multimodal objective function (if one criterion is to be used) and the optimisation of a multi-criteria function in general. One approach, the big-square, small-square method, has shown merit in practice. It is now possible to implement the method on a personal computer, making it portable and user friendly.