Harold Benson

Harold Philip Benson
Born1949
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupation(s)mathematician, operations researcher, professor

Harold Philip Benson (born 1949) is an American operations researcher, mathematician, and professor. He is best known for his work in multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM)[1][2] and for formulating Benson's algorithm in the field of linear programming.[3][4] He served as an American Economic Institutions professor at the University of Florida.[2]

  1. ^ Koksalan, Murat; Wallenius, Jyrki; Zionts, Stanley (2011-06-06). Multiple Criteria Decision Making: From Early History To The 21st Century. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4462-23-5.
  2. ^ a b Martinovich, Milenko (2011-12-07). "Benson recognized as one of his field's top scholars in new book". UF Warrington News. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  3. ^ Chen, Guangya; Li, Shengjie; Xu, Jiuping; Yang, Xinmin (June 2018). "Dedication to Benson". Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 177 (3): 606–608. doi:10.1007/s10957-018-1315-4. S2CID 254752917.
  4. ^ Ehrgott, Matthias; Löhne, Andreas; Shao, Lizhen (April 2012). "A dual variant of Benson's 'outer approximation algorithm' for multiple objective linear programming". Journal of Global Optimization. 52 (4): 757–778. doi:10.1007/s10898-011-9709-y. S2CID 254649300.