Article ID: | iaor1993295 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 121 |
End Page Number: | 133 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1992 |
Journal: | Fuzzy Sets and Systems |
Authors: | Lai Young-Jou, Hwang Ching-Lai |
Keywords: | programming: linear, programming: multiple criteria |
In practice, the unit costs/profits of new products or new projects, the lending and borrowing interest rates, and cash flows are always imprecise. The authors provide an auxiliary multiple objective linear programming model to solve a linear programming problem with imprecise objective and/or constraint coefficients. The present strategy is to maximize the most possible value of the imprecise profit. At the same time, the authors would like to minimize the risk of obtaining lower profit and maximize the possibility of obtaining higher profit. This strategy is equivalent to the practical considerations of financial problems. In this paper, a numeric investment problem is solved for illustrating the new approach.