The Decision Maker Has Expressed Concern with Goal 1, Budget

question 66

Multiple Choice

The decision maker has expressed concern with Goal 1, budget, achievement. He indicated that future candidate solutions should stay under budget. How can you modify your goal programming model to accommodate this change?

• A) Make budget a hard constraint in the model.
• B) Give d₁⁺ an extremely large weight in the objective function.
• C) Remove d₁⁺ from the goal constraint.
• D) All of these.

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