J. CIimaco and C. H. Antunes After the pleasure which has been to host the community of researchers and practitioners in the area of multicriteria analysis (MA) in Coimbra in August 1994, this volume of proceedings based on the papers presented at the conference is the last step of that venture. Even though this may not be the appropriate place we cannot resist, however, the temptation to express herein some brief feelings about the conference. Almost everything concerning the conference organisation has been "handcrafted" by a small number of people, with the advantages and disadvantages...

Introducing multiobjective optimization for students in engineering, management, economics and applied mathematics, this book focuses on multiobjective linear programming and multiobjective integer/mixed integer programming. It is accompanied by an interactive software package which enables students to experiment and enhance their technical skills.