Using agricultural preservation priorities derived from an analytical hierarchy process by 23 conservation experts from 18 agencies in the state of Delaware, this research uses weighted benefit measures to evaluate the historical success of Delaware’s agricultural protection fund, which...

Several studies which were conducted to examine the potential benefits of the implementation of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) concluded that the advantages of FMS implementation are very large. The implementation of FMS is often determined by its embedded software. In an FMS, the software...

Selecting performance indicators is one of the major challenges that companies have to face in developing a performance measurement system. This is because selecting means evaluating a set of performance indicators against multiple criteria, sometimes potentially conflicting. This chapter...