TY - JFULL AU - Livier Serna and Xavier Fischer and Fouad Bennis PY - 2008/2/ TI - Cognitive Virtual Exploration for Optimization Model Reduction T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 80 EP - 89 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5545 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 13, 2008 N2 - In this paper, a decision aid method for preoptimization is presented. The method is called “negotiation", and it is based on the identification, formulation, modeling and use of indicators defined as “negotiation indicators". These negotiation indicators are used to explore the solution space by means of a classbased approach. The classes are subdomains for the negotiation indicators domain. They represent equivalent cognitive solutions in terms of the negotiation indictors being used. By this method, we reduced the size of the solution space and the criteria, thus aiding the optimization methods. We present an example to show the method. ER -