Site management: An application to Wadilmeluk (the Valley of the Kings)

Value has always been the reason underlying heritage conservation. It is self-evident that no society makes an effort to conserve what it does not value. However, assessing the value of a cultural heritage asset as a representative sample of our tangible and intangible heritage for present and future generations is a difficult concept to deal with. It is, therefore, the aim of the researchers to help the conservation decision process by attempting to make an assessment of the values attributed to the cultural heritage assets of one of the most notable heritage sites in Egypt: the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. This paper uses goal programming. It was the runner-up in the IFORS 2005 competition for papers on OR in developing countries.