A multiobjective diet planning support system using the satisficing trade-off method

A multiobjective diet planning support system using the satisficing trade-off method

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Article ID: iaor19983031
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 131
End Page Number: 139
Publication Date: May 1997
Journal: Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Authors: ,
Keywords: agriculture & food
Abstract:

This paper shows that the satisficing trade-off method (STOM), one of the interactive multiobjective programming techniques, can be applied effectively to the formulation of livestock rations. Nutrient requirements are considered as soft constraints whose right-hand sides are flexible to some extent. This is easily done by regarding the values of the right-hand sides of the constraints as aspiration levels of the decision maker for objective functions. In this way a well-balanced solution can be obtained by STOM with automatic trade-off analysis. In STOM, moreover, because the objective functions and the constraint functions are interchangeable, decision makers are not required to consider the role of objective and constraint as fixed from the beginning. The authors' experience is that the method makes ration formulation very easy, rapid and flexible. In addition, this paper shows how effectively STOM can be applied not only to diet planning but also to nutritional diagnosis.

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