Multi-Objective Programming in the USSR

A text intended for western and eastern research and academic communities, especially in operations research, system analysis, and management and decision science. The area of multi-objective programming has become increasingly active in operations research, applied mathematics and decision and management science because of its usefulness in solving problems ranging from engineering to economics. This book summarizes the massive, important, and original Soviet research in this area. It presents an important corpus of mathematical research never before made available in the West. The author brings together the exposition and analysis of a wide range of mehtods in the fields of multi-objective programming, as developed in the USSR during the last 20 years