International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

On the structure of the equitably nondominated set of multi-objective optimization problems

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of Mathematics, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran

Abstract

This paper is mainly concerned with some of the theoretical aspects of equitable multi-objective optimization. By using the equitability preference structure, we discuss some properties of the equitably nondominated set, such as nonemptiness, external stability and connectedness. Also, we introduce the concept of proper equitable nondominance, and show that these solutions can be obtained by minimizing a weighted sum of the sort of objective functions where all weights are positive and decreasing. Moreover, we present a hybrid scalarization problem to generate equitably nondominated solutions. This method also provides a necessary condition for the existence of properly equitable nondominated solutions.

Keywords

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International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
Volume 15, Issue 7
July 2024
Pages 289-298
  • Receive Date: 25 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 17 June 2023
  • Accept Date: 16 July 2023