%0 Journal Article %A Alonso Morón, Manuel %A Romero López, Carlos %A Romero Ruiz Del Portal, Francisco %T Generating well-behaved utility functions for compromise programming %D 1996 %@ 0022-3239 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57349 %X The purpose of this paper is to seek utility functions satisfying a weak condition which guarantees that the utility optimum always belongs to the compromise set. This set is a special subset of the attainable or feasible set, which is generated through the application of the well-known operational research approach called compromise programming. It is shown that there are large families of utility functions satisfying this condition, thus reinforcing the value of compromise programming as a good surrogate of the traditional utility optimum. %~