This book concentrates on providing technical tools to make the user of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies independent of bulky optimization computations. These bulky computations have been a necessary, but limiting, characteristic of interactive MCDM methodologies and...

Formal decision and evaluation models are so widespread that almost no one can pretend not to have used or suffered the consequences of one of them. This book is a guide aimed at helping the analyst to choose a model and use it consistently. A sound analysis of techniques is proposed and the...

Scheduling and multicriteria optimisation theory have been subject, separately, to numerous studies. Since the last fifteen years, multicriteria scheduling problems have been subject to a growing interest. However, a gap between multicriteria scheduling approaches and multicriteria optimisation...

In this paper, we consider the disassembly-to-order (DTO) problem, where a variety of returned products are disassembled to fulfill the demand for specified numbers of components and materials. The objective is to determine the optimal numbers of returned products to disassemble so as to...

Pharmaceutical companies are faced with identifying development compounds for their Drug Development Processes (DDPs) that will not only gain approval for sale by the regulatory agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but also establish a sustainable and profitable market...

Frequently, problems involving a management activity involve the incurring of a setup charge for the activity. In these cases, the total cost of the activity is the sum of the variable cost related to the level of the activity and a set up cost required to initiate the activity. In this...

This research deals with the evaluation of the efficiency of consumer freight package delivery. Model inputs include number of delivery and administrative employees, labor hours, operating costs, and number of deliver vehicles. Outputs include number of packages delivered, percent on-time,...