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Decision support based on the skeleton method - the HG package. (English) Zbl 0574.90046

Plural rationality and interactive decision processes, Proc. IIASA Summer Study, Sopron/Hung. 1984, Lect. Notes Econ. Math. Syst. 248, 269-280 (1985).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0566.00034.]
The paper presents a software tool for supporting the decision maker while solving the multiobjective resource allocation problem. The package is based on the skeleton method and deals with linear models. The procedure works step-wise and its single step consists in validation of the resource estimates with respect to the model through solving a multiobjective optimization problem followed by an appropriate analysis of the results. Each of the multiobjective optimization problems uses a different so-called reference point, which is the consequent breaking point of the skeleton, in order to check the mutual position of the actual reference point and the optimal compromise set.
The considerations concerning properties and implications of the skeleton method in terms of the decision analysis process are presented. The method has been implemented as an interactive computer package named the HG-package. The functional structure of the HG-package as well as a description of a session with the package are also presented.

MSC:

90B50 Management decision making, including multiple objectives

Citations:

Zbl 0566.00034

Software:

HG package