Abstract
The estimate of the parameters which define a conventional multiobjective decision making model is a difficult task. Normally they are either given by the Decision Maker who has imprecise information and/or expresses his considerations subjectively, or by statistical inference from the past data and their stability is doubtful. Therefore, it is reasonable to construct a model reflecting imprecise data or ambiguity in terms of fuzzy sets and several fuzzy approaches to multiobjective programming have been developed [1, 9–11]. The fuzziness of the parameters gives rise to a problem whose solution will also be fuzzy, see [2, 3], and which is defined by its possibility distribution. Once the possibility distribution of the solution has been obtained, if the decision maker wants more precise information with respect to the decision vector, then we can pose and solve a new problem. In this case we try to find a decision vector, which approximates as much as possible the fuzzy objectives to the fuzzy solution previously obtained. In order to solve this problem we shall develop two different models from the initial solution and based on Goal Programming: an Interval Goal Programming Problem if we define the relation “as accurate as possible” based on the expected intervals of fuzzy numbers, as we showed in [4], and an ordinary Goal Programming based on the expected values of the fuzzy numbers that defined the goals. Finally, we construct algorithms that implement the above mentioned solution method. Our approach will be illustrated by means of a numerical example.
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