15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
REFERENCE POINT AND FUZZY APPROACHES FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING
Carlos Henggeler Antunes1,3, Ana Rosa Pereira Borges2,3
1 Dep. of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3030-030 Coimbra, Portugal
2 ISEC, Coimbra Polytechnic Institute, Apartado 10057, 3030-601 Coimbra, Portugal
3 INESC, Rua Antero de Quental 199, 3000-033 Coimbra, Portugal

The study of the interactions between the energy sector, its effects on the environment and the corresponding impacts on a national economy must explicitly address multiple, conflicting and incommensurate aspects of evaluation. Multiple objective programming models enable the decision makers to rationalize the comparisons among distinct alternative solutions, providing them with a better perception of the conflicting aspects under evaluation and the ability to grasp the tradeoffs to be made. Reference point approaches provide a framework to aid decision makers to search for “satisfactory” efficient solutions. Moreover, it is possible to interpret the degree of satisfaction with the values of the objective functions by means of fuzzy membership functions.
Keywords: Decision support systems, Multiobjective optimization, Multiple-criterion, Linear programming, Fuzzy modelling, Energy, Economics, Environment

E-mail: ch@dee.uc.pt
Session slot T-Tu-E07: Modeling and Control of Economic Systems/Area code 5e : Computation in Economic, Financial and Engineering-Economic Systems