I started my research in this area when I registered as a MSc student in 1986 in the Department of Applied Mathematics , Harbin Institute of Technology. Since 1986, I have undertaken a number of sponsored research projects involving both applied mathematics theory and practical industry application aspects. I have received several academic awards including a first-class Science and Technology Advance Awards in China.
Goal programming is an attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional optimisation models.
It tries to find satisfactory solutions instead of optimal solutions. Therefore it is widely used. A problem with it is that it is not always easy to give a rational set of goals for a decision-maker. The feedback information from solution is too little to adjust the goals according to it. We combined the ideas of Fuzzy programming with Goal programming to develop a new multiple objective programming model - goal programming with preference transform.