Conjugate duality relationships are pervasive in matching and implementation problems and provide much of the structure essential for characterizing stable matches and implementable allocations in models with quasilinear (or transferable) utility. In the absence of quasilinearity, a more...

Book Review Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research and Statistics (R. Slowinski, Ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research and Statistics (R. Slowinski, Ed.) is the first volume of a collection prepared by Kluwer Academic Publishers: The...

Governments are challenged to balance multiple policy goals and make difficult choices when selecting infrastructure projects for public investment, particularly since available funds are often insufficient to implement the full suite of proposals. This paper presents the application of the...

Information and communication technology (ICT) project success is a research topic that has received the attention of academics and practitioners, at least, in the lasted two decades. Organizations have been making increasing investments in ICT to improve productivity and quality of processes....

This work deals with the problem of comparing the competitiveness of tourist destinations as a multicriteria ranking problem. Comparing tourist destinations is a complex problem because they present wide heterogeneity between them. The Crounch-Ritchie model is used as the main approach for...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a major buzz word and is accepted as a future direction of ICT. One of the market's challenges is the formation of healthy business ecosystems. As IoT business inherently encompasses convergence of distinct industries, forming a healthy business ecosystem is...

Tri-level optimization problems are optimization problems with three nested hierarchical structures, where in most cases conflicting objectives are set at each level of hierarchy. Such problems are common in management, engineering designs and in decision making situations in general, and are...