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Abstract: The characterization of total ordering cones of was given with some properties and optimality conditions in Küçük et al. (2011) . In addition, total ordering cones were used to derive a vector valued function from a special class of set valued mappings in Küçük et al. (2012) . In this study, we give a method for construction of a total ordering cone in a separable Hilbert space by using an orthogonal base. Moreover, we show that every total order can be represented by such a cone. The relationship between the notion of total ordering cone and the notion of vectorization of some set valued mappings are given and some results are obtained. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: As a result of our previous studies on finding the minimal element of a set in n-dimensional Euclidean space with respect to a total ordering cone, we introduced a method which we call “The Successive Weighted Sum Method” (Küçük et al., 2011 ). In this study, we compare the Weighted Sum Method to the Successive Weighted Sum Method. A vector-valued function is derived from the special type of set-valued function by using a total ordering cone, which is a process we called vectorization, and some properties of the given vector-valued function are presented. We also prove that this vector-valued function can be used instead of the set-valued map as an objective function of a set-valued optimization problem. Moreover, by giving two examples we show that there is no relationship between the continuity of set-valued map and the continuity of the vector-valued function derived from this set-valued map. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]