APPLYING TRANSFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS TO SOLVE THE MULTI OBJECTIVE LINEAR FRACTIONAL PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS

For some management programming problems, multiple objectives to be optimized rather than a single objective, and objectives can be expressed with ratio equations such as return/investment, operating profit/net-sales, profit/manufacturing cost, etc. In this paper, we proposed the transformation characteristics to solve the multi objective linear fractional programming (MOLFP) problems. If a MOLFP problem with both the numerators and the denominators of the objectives are linear functions and some technical linear restrictions are satisfied, then it is defined as a multi objective linear fractional programming problem MOLFPP in this research. The transformation characteristics are illustrated and the solution procedure and numerical example are presented.