Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1989), pp. 259-273 (15 pages) This paper is concerned with sequences of policies that occur over time in voting models and planning procedures. The framework ...

An optimality criterion is a single number that summarizes how good a design is, and it is maximized or minimized by an optimal design. This section discusses in detail the optimality criteria ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper shows the asymptotic equivalence of the classical and symmetric optimality criteria for the finite state, arbitrary action compound ...

where f is the objective function and the m c i 's are the constraint functions. A point x is feasible if it satisfies all the constraints. The feasible region G is the set of all the feasible points.