After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the type of problems that goal programming is designed to handle.
- Describe the similarities and differences between goal programming and linear programming models.
- Formulate goal programming models.
- Solve goal programming models that have two decision variables using a graphical approach.
- Solve goal programming models using Excel and interpret solutions of goal programming models.
- Describe the type of problems that the analytical hierarchy process is designed to handle.
- Describe how to determine pairwise comparisons.
- Describe what a consistency check is and calculate a consistency ratio, priority percentage, and priority score for each alternative using AHP.
- Use Excel to solve analytical hierarchy process problems.
- Describe and solve scoring model multicriteria decision-making problems.