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Many planning models can be formulated as large-scale linear goal-programming problems in which the analyst and user must establish thousands of objective-function weights that reflect the priorities of the many goals. How to select such weights so as to have the resulting optimal solution be a suitable compromise solution is the main focus of this paper. We first describe the problem setting that gave rise to the need, here military personnel planning, and then a process by which a set of goal priorities and objective-function weights can be developed using Saaty's analytic hierarchy process.
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Gass, S. A Process for Determining Priorities and Weights for Large-Scale Linear Goal Programmes. J Oper Res Soc 37, 779–785 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1986.138
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1986.138