Instruction
A summary of the steps involved in solving a Goal Programming (GP) problem involves ten identifiable steps. Identify and discuss any one or more of this steps?
HERE ARE THE STEPS
SUMMARY OF GOAL PROGRAMMING
* Identify the decision variables in the problem.
* Identify any hard constraints in the problem and formulate them in the usual way.
* State the goals of the problem along with their target values.
* Create constraints using the decision variables that would achieve the goals exactly.
* Transform the above constraints into goal constraints by including deviational variables.
* Determine which deviational variables represent undesirable deviations from the goals.
* Formulate an objective that penalizes the undesirable deviations.
* Identify appropriate weights for the objective.
* Solve the problem.
* Inspect the solution to the problem. If the solution is unacceptable, return to step 8 and revise the weights as needed.