| Article ID: | iaor20003738 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Start Page Number: | 960 |
| End Page Number: | 973 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Baykasoglu Adil, Owen Stephen, Gindy Nabil N.Z. |
| Keywords: | tabu search |
Goal programming is a very powerful technique for solving multiple objective optimisation problems. It has been successfully applied to numerous diverse real life problems. In this paper a Taboo search based method is developed to solve preemptive goal programming problems. The method can easily be applied to any kind of preemptive goal programming problems.