Toward Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems : Volume 1 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Held at Kyoto, Japan, August 18-22, 1986

(VOL. 1) -- I. Interactive Decision Support Systems -- Towards Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems -- Corporate Systematic Thinking and its Implementation; in Retrospect of my Way -- On Effective Goal Setting -- Systems Approach to Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Metaoptimum -- Symmetries in Multicriteria Optimization and their Application -- Habitual Domains Analysis: An Application to High Stake Decision Problems -- Multicriteria Comparative Analysis of Discrete Alternatives -- Integration of Didactics and Creativity in Interactive Multiple Criteria Decision Support Systems -- Autonomous Coordinability of Decentralized System Considering Subsystems Failures -- Identifying Support in Decision Support Systems -- II. Interactive Multiobjective Programming Methods -- Analytical Survey of Procedures for Solving Multicriteria Mathematical Programming Problems (MMPP) -- Methods for Constructing Interactive Procedures in Multiobjective Optimization Problems -- User Control and Multiple Time Path Objectives in a Manpower Planning Decision Support Systems Environment -- Multi-Objective Optimization Method by Satisfaction and Min-Max -- On the Use of Bipolar Reference Objectives in Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- An Interactive Modification of the Decision Set to Attain a Target Point in Vector Optimization Problems -- On Using Computer Graphics for Solving MCDM-Problems -- Priority-Based Interactive Multicriteria Optimization Algorithm -- An Interactive Approach to Multiple Objective Multiple Decision Maker Problems -- An Empirical Assessment and Insights on Two Multicriteria Integer Programming Algorithms -- Degeneracy Valuation and Consolidation in Multiple Objective Linear Programming Models in Accounting -- Approximation Methods for Multiple Criteria Travelling Salesman Problems -- Multicriterion Packing Problem -- Arbitration Models for Solving Multiobjective Optimization -- A Lexicographic Method for Multiple Objective Binary Linear Programming -- Interactive Methods for Group Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- Guide Lines for Testing Interactive Multicriterion Methods by Simulation -- III. Applications -- 1. Planning -- MCDM in Hospital Planning -- Two-Level Financial Planning with Conflicting Goals: An Interactive Procedural Approach -- MCDM and Strategic Development for Beijing -- Environmental Design and Ordinal Regression -- A Specific DSS for City Planners on a PC -- 2. Design -- Multiobjective Management of Erection for Cablestayed Bridge Using Satisficing Trade-Off Method -- Multiple Criteria Decision Making System for Steel Structure in Chemical Plant -- Computer Aided Interactive Multiobjective Satisfaction and its Applications to Design Problems -- 3. Production -- Applications of Multicriteria Methods to Operations Management -- Contracting Cone Method vs Modified Two Person-Zero Sum Game Approach: An Implementation in Production Planning -- Problems in the Production Management System of the Steel Industry: An Approach to the Problem of Multi-Purpose Decision-Making -- A Fuzzy Satisficing Approach to Multiobjective Pass Scheduling for Hot Tandem Mills -- IV. Theory of Vector Optimization -- Inverse Problems in Multiobjective Dynamic Optimization -- Duality and Decision Support for LVOPs -- Vector Maximum Problems: Sensitivity, Degeneracy and Entropy -- Sensitivity Analysis in Vector Optimization -- Vector Variational Inequality and Vector Optimiaztion Problem -- Epsilon Solutions and Duality in Vector Optimization -- Appendices -- 1. Softwares in Computer Demonstration Session -- 2. List of Participants -- 3. Organization -- 4. List of Sponsors.