This page provides the materials and video tutorials for the multi-objective optimization section of the course. You can increase the quality of the video by clicking on the gear button of the video.
This video was created by Thomas Sharkey. It discusses how to formulate planning your monthly budget as a goal program. It then discusses how to create a linear program in order to model a situation where you care about different deviations from your bills, savings, and fun goals differently. The problem description is available here: A Monthly, Multi-Criteria Budgeting Problem.
This video was created by Sarah Nurre. It focuses on determining which workers to employ in a call center during an emergency when there are two objectives. These objectives are responsiveness, defined as a short customer wait time, and efficiency (or utilization), defined as how often employees are working during their shift. It presents a method to construct the efficient frontier for these objectives by solving single-objective problems. The problem description is available here: Staffing a Call Center.