A Comparison of Generating Techniques and Goal Programming for Public Investment, Multiple Objective Decision Making
比较了不要求事先表达偏好的生成技术与目标规划在公共投资多目标决策中的应用，发现两者各有优劣。
Abstract The move toward public decision making based on multiple objective analysis has occurred largely during the past decade. During this brief interval dozens of techniques have been advanced for this purpose. The class of (generating) techniques which do not require prior articulation of preferences and which provide alternative solutions rather than a single optimum is characterized and compared to goal programming. Goal programming, as generally employed, seeks a single optimum solution given an articulated set of targets and priorities on the relevant objectives. Four criteria were used in this comparison and neither approach was found to be unambiguously superior.