This book presents selected papers from an international workshop devoted tothe theory, techniques and tools of decision analysis and support. Major trends in the development of this field are stressed, such as the tendency to place the final user of a decision support system in the center of...

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the "Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Social Sciences" Meeting held at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, May 27-30, 1991. The meeting welcomed contributions from economists interested in developing a new mathematical approach to the modelling of...

The fuzzy behaviour of preference tries to introduce indivi- duals whose preferences are not necessarily clear or coher- ent. The agents who have imprecise preferences are much more shaded. On the contrary of Boolean agents, fuzzy agents can- not decide anything with their only preferences....

This monograph is intended for a graduate course of engineering and management science, as well as for persons who want an introductory and a capsule look into the theories and methodologies of multiple attribute decision making under a fuzzy environment. Moving from classical MADM introduces a...

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic...

In the last 25 years, the fuzzy set theory has been applied in many disciplines such as operations research, management science, control theory,artificial intelligence/expert system, etc. In this volume, methods and applications of fuzzy mathematical programming and possibilistic mathematical...

Stochastic Programming offers models and methods for decision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain. These models have features and structural properties which are preferably exploited by SP methods within the solution process. This work contributes to the methodology for two-stagemodels....

This book contains both a theoretical analysis of (supply) price stabilization on world agricultural markets and an econometric investigationof recent sugar market policies. The theoretical part explicitly considers the effects of protected domestic markets: It shows price stabilization to be...