Abstract Engaging non-experts in matters of science and technology has been increasingly stressed both rhetoric action during the past decades. Under call for moving participation upstream, agenda setting processes have identified as viable entry point laypeople’s experiential value-based knowledge into science, innovation governance (STI). Harnessing visioning target promises to elicit such kn...

Multiple Objective Programming (MOP) problems have become famous among many researchers due to more practical and realistic implementations. There have been a lot of methods proposed especially during the past four decades. In this paper, we develop a new algorithm based on a new approach to solve MOP problems by starting from a utopian point (which is usually infeasible) and moving towards the...