This textbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective. By using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, it avoids the limits and oversimplifications that can come with optimization models with one criterion. The book is presented in a concise form,...

Efficiency Persistence of Bank and Thrift CEOs Using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Assessment of Transportation Performance: A Network Structure -- Total-Factor Energy Efficiency and Its Extensions: Introduction, Computation and Application -- Social cost efficient service quality – Integrating...

This volume provides a survey of current research problems and results in humanitarian operations research. Additionally, it discusses existing applications of humanitarian operations research, and considers new research efforts that clearly extend existing research and applications.The book is...

Introduction -- Search for a Stationary Target -- Search for a Moving Target in Discrete Space and Time -- Path-Constrained Search in Discrete Time and Space -- Search for Moving Targets in Continuous Space -- Constrained Search in Continuous Time and Space -- Search Games. .

Introduction -- Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand -- Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry -- Coordination of Supply...

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Ranking Decision Making Units: The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Ranking Methods in DEA -- 1.3 The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation: The Standard Approach -- 1.4 The Choice of DEA Weights in Cross-Efficiency Evaluations --...

Overview of Chapters -- Supply Chain Planning Processes for Two Major Retailers -- The Effects of Firm Size and Sales Growth Rate on Inventory Turnover Performance in the U.S. Retail Sector -- The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability -- Analytics for Operational Visibility in the...