Background: Inventory planning in retail supply chains requires balancing cost efficiency and service reliability under demand uncertainty and financial limitations. The literature has seldom addressed the joint integration of stochastic demand, deterministic lead times, and supplier-specific...

A comprehensive approach to the optimization of financial portfolios is provided by the Integral Analysis Method (IAM), which comprises four steps: The description of the problem is followed by three mathematical steps, namely, cardinal analysis, ordinal analysis and integration analysis, which...

The present work introduces Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis - Matching (SMAA-M), a MCDM technique which, just as former SMAA versions, has been designed for public decision environments. SMMA-M is specifically intended to support the choice for one or more alternatives among a...