Determination of optimal cropping pattern is essential for arid and semiarid regions. Lorestan province is located in the west part of Iran with mean annual precipitation from 50 to 1000 mm and in most parts of this province water resources for agriculture are deficit. Khoramabad region with semi-arid climate is located in Lorestan province with mean annual rainfall of 373 mm. The purpose of th...

Aggregate production planning (APP) determines the optimal production plan for the medium term planning horizon. The purpose of the APP is effective utilization of existing capacities through facing the fluctuations in demand. Recently, fuzzy approaches have been applied for APP focusing on vague nature of cost parameters. Considering the importance of coping with customer demand in different p...

in this paper,  a heuristic algorithm is proposed in order to solve a nonlinear lexicography goal programming (nlgp) by using an efficient initial point. some numerical experiments showed that the search quality by the proposed heuristic in a multiple objectives problem depends on the initial point features, so in the proposed approach the initial point is retrieved by data envelopment analysis...