Large-scale public R&D portfolio selection by maximizing a biobjective impact measure

  • Authors:
  • Igor S. Litvinchev;Fernando López;Ada Alvarez;Eduardo Fernández

  • Affiliations:
  • Autonomous University of Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico;Autonomous University of Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico;Autonomous University of Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico;Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans - Special issue on recent advances in biometrics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper addresses R&D portfolio selection in social institutions, state-owned enterprises, and other nonprofit organizations which periodically launch a call for proposals and distribute funds among accepted projects. A nonlinear discontinuous bicriterion optimization model is developed in order to find a compromise between a portfolio quality measure and the number of projects selected for funding. This model is then transformed into a linearmixed-integer formulation to present the Pareto front. Numerical experiments with up to 25 000 projects competing for funding demonstrate a high computational efficiency of the proposed approach. The acceptance/rejection rules are obtained for a portfolio using the rough set methodology.