Proposal of Satisficing Trade-Off Method for Multiobjective Programming

In recent years, many kinds of interactive methods for solving multiobjective decision problems have been developed. Many of them require high degree of judgment to decision makers, for example, marginal rate of substitution or ordering among a set of alternatives, and a number of auxiliary scalar optimizations. These features make their application to practical problems difficult. In this paper, a new type of interactive method, called satisficing trade-off method, will be proposed. The method is very simple and easy to carry out, and therefore is expected to be applied to many practical fields. Keyword: multiple criteria decision making, interactive multiobjective programming method, satisficing trade-off method