"Practical Goal Programming" is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a...

DATA ENGINEERING: Mining, Information, and Intelligence describes applied research aimed at the task of collecting data and distilling useful information from that data. Most of the work presented emanates from research completed through collaborations between Acxiom Corporation and its academic...

This book contains twelve selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization held on September 8-9th 2008 in Barcelona. Organized and chaired by Barcelo and Kuwahara, the workshop was intended to examine the purposes and quality of data and...

Basic Methodological Approaches -- Other Methodological Approaches -- MUSA: Multicriteria Satisfaction Analysis -- Extensions of the MUSA Method -- Advanced Topics on the MUSA Method -- Customer Satisfaction Surveys and Barometers -- Applications in Business Organizations -- Customer...

History and Philosophy of Goal Programming -- Goal Programming Variants -- Formulating Goal Programmes -- Advanced Topics in Goal Programming Formulation -- Solving and Analysing Goal Programming Models -- Detection and Restoration of Pareto Inefficiency -- Trend of Integration and Combination...

Analysis of Pull Postponement by EOQ-based Models -- Analysis of Postponement Strategy by EPQ-based Models -- Evaluation of a Postponement System with an (r, q) Policy -- Simulation of a Two-End-Product Postponement System -- Application of Postponement: Examples from Industry -- Conclusions,...

Traffic Data Collection and Its Standardization -- Data Collection, Use and Provision at the Transport Data Centre, New South Wales, Australia -- Data Collection for Measuring Performance of Integrated Transportation Systems -- International Traffic Database: Gathering Traffic Data Fast and...