<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article describes in details how multicriteria optimization can be applied to solve a typical business problem for resources planning and manufacturing process optimization in a battery factory. We solve the problem by using an interactive software decision support system WebOptim developed at the Institute of information and communication technologies. The entire problem solving process is described step by step in order to point out the problem specific features as well as to demonstrate the capabilities of the WebOptim software system. For comparison, we have solved the same problem by means of another popular decision support system WWW NIMBUS and both solutions are analyzed and discussed.</p></abstract>

This article describes in details how multicriteria optimization can be applied to solve a typical business problem for resources planning and manufacturing process optimization in a battery factory. We solve the problem by using an interactive software decision support system WebOptim developed at the Institute of information and communication technologies. The entire problem solving process is described step by step in order to point out the problem specific features as well as to demonstrate the capabilities of the WebOptim software system. For comparison, we have solved the same problem by means of another popular decision support system WWW NIMBUS and both solutions are analyzed and discussed.

Comparison of Software Decision Support Systems for Solving a Multicriteria Optimization Problem

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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This article describes in details how multicriteria optimization can be applied to solve a typical business problem for resources planning and manufacturing...

Comparison of Software Decision Support Systems for Solving a Multicriteria Optimization Problem

Published Online: Mar 30, 2018

Page range: 41 - 50

Received: Oct 23, 2017

Accepted: Jan 11, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2018-0004

Keywords
Multicriteria optimization, decision support systems, resource planning

© 2018 Boris Staykov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Comparison of Software Decision Support Systems for Solving a Multicriteria Optimization Problem

Published Online: Mar 30, 2018

Page range: 41 - 50

Received: Oct 23, 2017

Accepted: Jan 11, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2018-0004

KeywordsMulticriteria optimization, decision support systems, resource planning

© 2018 Boris Staykov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Multicriteria optimization, decision support systems, resource planning