JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, cilt.50, sa.9, ss.960-973, 1999 (SCI-Expanded)
Goal programming is a very powerful technique for solving multiple objective optimisation problems. It has been successfully applied to numerous diverse real life problems. In this paper a Taboo search based method is developed to solve preemptive goal programming problems. The method can easily be applied to any kind of preemptive goal programming problems.