Publication
Piecewise Linear Multicriteria Programs: The Continuous Case and Its Discontinuous Generalization
Publisher:
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Date:
04-2012
DOI:
10.1287/OPRE.1110.1014
Abstract: In this paper we study piecewise linear multicriteria programs, that is, multicriteria programs with either a continuous or discontinuous piecewise linear objective function and a polyhedron set constraint. We obtain an algebraic representation of a semi-closed polyhedron and apply it to show that the image of a semi-closed polyhedron under a continuous linear function is always one semi-closed polyhedron. We establish that the (weak) Pareto solution oint set of a piecewise linear multicriteria program is the union of finitely many semi-closed polyhedra. We propose an algorithm for finding the Pareto point set of a continuous piecewise linear bi-criteria program and generalize it to the discontinuous case. We apply our algorithm to solve the discontinuous bi-criteria portfolio selection problem with an l ∞ risk measure and transaction costs and show that this algorithm can be improved by using an ideal point strategy.