Managing sustainable development through goal programming model and satisfaction functions

• Published in: Annals of operations research Vol. 293; no. 2; pp. 747 - 766
• Main Authors: Nechi, Salem, Aouni, Belaid, Mrabet, Zouhair
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-10-2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agglomeration; Business and Management; Combinatorics; Decision making; Decision-making, Group; Goal programming; Goal setting; Management; Mathematical optimization; Methods; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; S.i. : Mcdm 2017; Social factors; Sustainable development; Theory of Computation; Tradeoffs; Qatar; Sustainable development; Satisfaction function; Stakeholders’ preferences; Goal programming
• ISSN: 0254-5330; 1572-9338
• DOI: 10.1007/s10479-019-03139-9

Managing the sustainable development path of a nation requires the aggregation of incommensurable and conflicting objectives related to economic, environmental and social dimensions. Their aggregation requires some tradeoffs from stakeholders with different priorities and preferences. The aim of this paper is to develop a multiple objectives decision aid model where stakeholders’ preferences are explicitly integrated within a group decision-making process based on consensus and tradeoffs. This model is based on the concept of the satisfaction function, where stakeholders’ preferences are explicitly taken into consideration. The developed model is illustrated through an example related to the Canadian 2030 agenda for sustainable development.