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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med. 2009 Dec 21;26(4):184–191. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2009.11.005

Table 1.

Notation used throughout the text.

symbol meaning

x vector of decision variables
Fj(x) jth indicator function, j = 1 … n
F(x) vector of all n indicator functions
Cx constraint set for the decision variables
CF convexified set of feasible indicator function vectors
v, y, z used to denote points in indicator function space, IRn
vi, i = 1 … m m points in indicator function space representing the Pareto surface
CH(v1, v2, … , vm) convex hull of the m representing points. Serves as approximation of CF
d(zy) distance (one sided maximum norm) from z to y
d(zS) distance from z to the set S