Article ID: | iaor1996634 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 43 |
End Page Number: | 50 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
Journal: | Computers & Mathematics with Applications |
Authors: | Shi Y. |
Keywords: | decision theory |
This paper proposes several optimum-path ratios for enforcing different budget levels of resources so as to find alternative optimal system designs for solving multicriteria De Novo programming problems. Then, the study of optimum-path ratios is applied to solve an optimal pattern matching problem which is formulated by the De Novo programming with a given initial budget level and an optimal pattern preferred by the decision maker. An interactive algorithm is developed to continuously reshape the problem for matching the optimal pattern. A numerical example is also used to illustrate the algorithm.