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...

As will be shown the current use of Desirability Indices for optimisation purposes in experimental design gives biased results in general. Researchers were satisfied with approximative solutions as unbiased results would have required analytical expressions for the distributions of Desirability...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting focuses on the disclosure of information, however, the information reported is all too often determined by what the company deems important. To improve the reliability of CSR information and to enhance stakeholders’ confidence, CSR reports are...

Decision Analysis can not be done without some reflection on the normative grounds of the analysis. The aim of decision analysis is to recommend an action. This recommendation constitutes a normative act. There are mainly two economic decision analyses: Cost-benefit analysis and...

The basic ideas of Desirability functions and indices are introduced and compared to other methods of multivariate optimisation. It is shown that gradient based techniques are not in general appropriate to perform the numerical optimisation for Desirability indices. The problems are shown for...

An integrated ecological-economic decision-making approach is developed to help local stakeholders decide on land use in rural areas where the conflict between natural resource protection and economic development is pressing. It consists of four methodological steps. In the first step the...

A supply chain is the system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information,and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Themain and basic challenges in the supply chain are to plan a strategy to manage theresources and meet the demands, to...