Carlos Romero López

Carlos Romero (Madrid, 1946) is a Spanish academic who specializes in the field of economic optimization chiefly by using multi-criteria programming methods, concretely goal programming methods.

In 2006, the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making awarded him the Georg Cantor Medal.

Romero is author, co-author or co-editor of 21 books and around 220 papers (around 100 of them appearing in the ISI data basis) with an optimization orientation and an interdisciplinary perspective that combines engineering, economics and applied mathematics.

His book Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming (Pergamon Press, 1991) and his paper "Goal Programming for Decision Making" (with Mehrdad Tamiz and Dylan Jones, European Journal of Operational Research, 1998), have had and still have a strong influence in the optimization field.

His monograph Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions (with T. Rehman, Elsevier 1989, 2003) is a work of reference for optimizing the use of the natural resources.