The increasing complexity of our environment, the globalization of diverse business processes and their intercultural embedment create challenges, higher risks and hence interdependency between a growing number of participants. This is undoubtedly reflected in the current financial crisis and...

Modellbasierte Gestaltung prozessorientierter Informationssysteme -- Fuzzy-Methoden für die Prozessmodellierung -- Entwicklung einer Methode zur Integration von Unschärfe in die Prozessmodellierung -- Austausch- und Speicherformat für unscharfe Prozessmodelle -- Anwendung der Methode zur...

The Black and Litterman model (1992) for estimating asset returns is widely used in industry and has been widely studied in the academic and professional literature. Black and Litterman offer a way to incorporate investor's views into asset-pricing. This chapter provides a description of the...

Provides details on a specific approach to research. The book is relevant to a broad range of disciplines, can be used in teaching and by practitioners, and is focused on an integrated approach to qualitative and quantitative research

Based on policy makers' limitations in solving real-life problems and thefact that information is rarely available in a pure quantitative form, enhancements and new approaches to remedy this are proposed by Mark Hürlimann. He introduces simple and more sophisticated static and dynamic methods...

In a fuzzy cooperative game the playersmay choose to partially participate in a coalition. A fuzzy coalition consists of a group of participating players along with their participation level. The characteristic function of a fuzzy game specifies the worth of each such coalition. This paper...

Purpose: The United States Government adopted the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) to resolve the military, economic and political issue of excess base capacity. There have been five rounds of BRAC since 1988, and more are expected to come in the years ahead. The complexity of the closure and...