| Article ID: | iaor20083430 |
| Country: | Poland |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 873 |
| End Page Number: | 880 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Journal: | Control and Cybernetics |
| Authors: | Malinowska Agnieszka Barbara |
| Keywords: | decision theory: multiple criteria, programming: linear |
In multiobjective (vector) optimization problems, among the given objective functions there exist some, which do not influence the set of efficient solutions. These objective functions are said to be nonessential. In the paper, a new method for deciding whether a given linear objective function is nonessential or not, is given.