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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE189</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2011.14</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>A Decision Support System for Solving Multiple Criteria Optimization Problems</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>FILATOVAS</surname>
                    <given-names>Ernestas</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:ernest.filatov@gmail.com">ernest.filatov@gmail.com</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Vilnius University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lihuania</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>KURASOVA</surname>
                    <given-names>Olga</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:olga.kurasova@mii.vu.lt">olga.kurasova@mii.vu.lt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Vilnius University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lihuania</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                        <volume>10</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>213</fpage>
                        <lpage>224</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2011</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>In this paper, multiple criteria optimization has been investigated. A new decision support system (DSS) has been developed for interactive solving of multiple criteria optimization problems (MOPs). The weighted-sum (WS) approach is implemented to solve the MOPs. The MOPs are solved by selecting different weight coefficient values for the criteria and solving single-criterion optimization problems (SOPs). However, the WS approach does not guarantee either finding evenly distributed solutions of a Pareto front, or finding Pareto optimal solutions in non-convex regions. In order to solve the problems, some methods have been proposed. In this paper, an adaptive weighted-sum (AWS) approach has been used. We suggest presenting the solutions, obtained not only by the weighted-sum method, but also by the adaptive weighted-sum approach, to a decision maker (DM). Thus the decision making will be facilitated.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>multiple criteria optimization</kwd>
                        <kwd>decision support system</kwd>
                        <kwd>interactive optimization</kwd>
                        <kwd>decision making</kwd>
                        <kwd>Pareto front</kwd>
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