Intelligent Support Systems for Marketing Decisions examines new product development, market penetration strategies, and other marketing decisions utilizing a confluence of methods, including Decision Support Systems (DSS), Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Multicriteria Analysis. The...

Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions (how to predict factory performance: how to...

The Editors have taken the occasion of Professor John A. Buzacott's retirement as a motivating event to develop this volume. The objectives of Stochastic Modeling And Optimization Of Manufacturing Systems And Supply Chains is to both honor John Buzacott's achievements and to publish a set of...

1 Basic DEA Models -- 2 Measure-specific DEA Models -- 3 Returns-to-Scale -- 4 DEA with Preference -- 5 Modeling Undesirable Measures -- 6 Context-dependent Data Envelopment Analysis -- 7 Benchmarking Models -- 8 Models for Evaluating Value Chains -- 9 Congestion -- 10 Super Efficiency -- 11...

1 The Linear Multiobjective Project Selection Problem -- 2 Evaluating Competing Investments -- 3 The Linear Project Selection Problem: An Alternative to Net Present Value -- 4 Choosing the Best Solution in a Project Selection Problem with Multiple Objectives -- 5 Evaluating a Portfolio of...