Constructing Scalar-Valued Objective Functions: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Econometric Decision Models: Constructing Scalar-Valued Objective Functions University of Hagen Held in Katholische Akademie Schwerte September 5-8, 1995

For several decades, scholars have developed methods for solving optimization problems which emerge in economics, econometrics, operations research, and other disciplines. A considerable effort has been made to construct equations from which constraints can be derived, but surprisingly little has been done to construct the other part of optimization models: the scalar—valued objective function, the constrained maximum or minimum of which gives the optimal solution. The given volume is inten...