GENERALIZATIONS OF ISERMANN'S RESULTS IN VECTOR OPTIMIZATION

Vector optimization problems consist of two or more objective functions and constraints. Optimization entails obtaining efficient solutions. Geoffrion [3] introduced the definition of the properly efficient solution in order to eliminate efficient solutions causing unbounded trade-offs between objective functions. In 1974, Isermann [7] obtained a necessary and sufficient condition for an efficient solution of a linear vector optimization problem with linear constraints and showed that every efficient solution is a properly efficient solution. Since then, many authors [1, 2, 4, 5, 6] have extended the Isermann's results. In particular, Gulati and Islam [4] derived a necessary and sufficient condition for an efficient solution of a linear vector optimization problem with nonlinear constraints, under certain assumptions. In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear vector optimization problem (NVOP): (Fig.) where for each i, f$_{i}$ is a differentiable function from R$^{n}$ into R and g is a differentiable function from R$^{n}$ into R$^{m}$ .