| Article ID: | iaor1993836 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 331 |
| End Page Number: | 336 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1992 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Paolucci Massimo, Pesenti Raffaele |
| Keywords: | programming: linear, programming: multiple criteria |
This work addresses multiattribute decision problems in which the decision maker’s preferences over a finite set of alternatives can be explicitly represented by a utility/cost function. A new cost function, with a multilinear Hessian, is introduced and assessed using linear programming. This new function makes it possible to deal with preferentially non-independent attributes.