The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new kind of variational inequal
ity, a 'generalized vector variational-like inequality' which includes seve
ral classical and well-known variational inequalities as special cases. As
an application of the Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz principle as extended
by Fan in 1961 [1], we prove that there exist solutions for our generalize
d vector variational-like inequality under reasonable hypotheses. These res
ults generalize corresponding results given by Chen et al. in [2], Gianness
i [3], Harker and Pang [4], Hartman and Stampacchia [5], Isac [6], Lee ct a
l. [7], Noor [8], Saigal [9], Siddiqi et al. [10], and Yang [11]. (C) 1999
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