This edited volume collates discussions on latest challenges, opportunities, trends and practices applicable to two major business sectors -- retail and financial services -- and chapters are segregated accordingly. It explores how these sectors are increasingly becoming data-intensive, and how...

Petrochemicals’ Close Relations to Human Survival -- Significant Impact of Oil Power on World Development -- Utilizing Operational Research of Petroleum Strategy to Ensure National Petroleum Security -- Common Theories in Operational Research of Petroleum Strategy -- Linear Programming...

Introduction -- Distributed Linguistic Information Transformations and Unifications -- Distributed linguistic Information Fusion and Consensus -- Distributed Linguistic Multiple Attribute Decision Making -- Personalized Individual Semantics for Distributed Linguistic Representation --...

Introduction -- Probability-based hesitant fuzzy opinion dynamics decision-making method -- Distribution-based decision-making method for dual hesitant fuzzy information -- Multi-attribute decision-making method based on probabilistic hesitant fuzzy entropy -- Probability-based integration for...

Linguistic Computational Models for Computing with Words -- Basic Linguistic Computation Models for Computing with Words -- Linguistic Computational Models for Modeling Complex Linguistic Information -- MAGDM Methods Based on Multi-granular Linguistic Information -- Consensus-based Method for...

The Optimization of the Location-allocation Problem of Pallet Pooling Centers -- Research on Development Forecast of New Energy Vehicles in Yangtze River Delta Based on GM(1,1) Model -- Distribution Route Optimization of Electric Vehicles Considering Charging Strategy and Nonlinear Energy...

Historical Note on Unconstrained Optimization and Quantum Calculus -- Basics of Unconstrained Optimization and Quantum Calculus -- Quantum-Steepest Descent Method with Quasi-Fejér Convergence -- Quantum- Fletcher-Reeves Conjugate Gradient Method -- Quantum-Polak-Ribière-Polyak -- Conjugate...

Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Backgrounds and Literature Review -- Part II Three-way Risk Decision Based on Group Information Fusion -- 2 Three-way Group Decision -- 3 Three-way Group Decision under Linguistic Assessments -- 4 Three-way Group Decision via Joint Classification and Consensus...

Introduction -- Preliminary Knowledge -- Trust and Behavior Analysis-based Structure-heterogeneous Information Fusion -- Trust Cop-Kmeans Clustering Method -- Compatibility Distance Oriented Off-center Clustering Method -- Minimum-Cost Consensus Model Considering Trust Loss -- Punishment-Driven...

This book focuses on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision making. In detail the included transportation management, optimization and management of logistics system, big data technology and method, financial engineering and risk management,...