Analysis of protected cropping: an application of multiobjective programming techniques to Spanish horticulture
研究了西班牙东南部劳动力管理型园艺企业的决策过程，构建多目标优化模型分析利润、风险、休闲和季节性劳动力之间的冲突，发现折中方案比单纯追求收入或风险最小化更符合实际。
This paper deals with labor-managed horticultural firms in southeastern Spain. It tries to model the decision-making processes and the conflicts between profit maximization, risk minimization, leisure, and seasonal labor as decisionmakers' objectives. A vectorial optimization model is developed and different farm types are analyzed. The selected location is Almeria where the horticultural farms are studied by reference types, which include all the possible family farms in the area. The model uses the multiobjective techniques to analyze the empirical problem. The analysis of risk incorporates some recent advances in the treatment of risk in linear programming. It is concluded that the compromise solution describes reality better than an income-maximizing or risk-minimizing solution. Copyright 1989 by Oxford University Press.