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A survey and annotated bibliography of multiobjective combinatorial optimization

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This paper provides a survey of the research in and an annotated bibliography of multiple objective combinatorial optimization, MOCO. We present a general formulation of MOCO problems, describe the main characteristics of MOCO problems, and review the main properties and theoretical results for these problems. The main parts of the paper are a section on the review of the available solution methodology, both exact and heuristic, and a section on the annotation of the existing literature in the field organized problem by problem. We conclude the paper by stating open questions and areas of future research.

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Der Artikel bietet einen Überblick und eine kommentierte Bibliographie über die Forschung in multikriterieller kombinatorischer Optimierung (MOCO, multiple objective combinatorial optimization). Wir stellen eine allgemeine Formulierung von MOCO Problemen vor, beschreiben die wichtigsten Charakteristika und Eigenschaften solcher Probleme und fassen die wesentlichen theoretischen Ergebnisse in diesem Forschungsgebiet zusammen. Die Hauptteile des Artikels sind die Abschnitte 4 über exakte und heuristsiche Lösungsverfahren und 6, der – problemweise untergliedert – die vorhandene Literatur kommentiert. Am Ende des Artikels steht ein Abschnitt zu offenen Fragen und Richtungen für zukünftige Forschung.

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Received: February 7, 2000 / Accepted: April 14, 2000

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Ehrgott, M., Gandibleux, X. A survey and annotated bibliography of multiobjective combinatorial optimization. OR Spektrum 22, 425–460 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002910000046

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