This paper analyzes the impact of national sentiment and investors' sentiment on stock market. Facebook Gross National Happiness (FGNH) Index is taken as a national sentiment score as the people of a country post comments reflecting their moods status. Initial analysis of national sentiment and...

This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems. It explores expert systems and neural networks, knowledge engineering and management, fuzzy sets and systems and computational methods for...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is widely applied in evaluating the efficiency of banks since it is a method capable of evaluating the efficiency of decision-making units in utilizing multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs. However, some outputs of banks, in fact, possess fuzzy...

To evaluate the economic importance of distribution uncertainty in a manufacturing company, the extent of changes in ex-ante optimal asset allocations of investors, who factor in distribution uncertainty into their portfolio model, is examined. The theory of uncertainty is a sub-division of...

The growing healthy relation among shippers and Third-Party Logistics (3PL) services providers boosts logistics services expansion. About 20% growth has been witnessed in logistics outsourcing globally. Seeing the market potential, many 3PL services providers are eager to venture their massive...

This article intends to answer the question as how through combination of BSC and Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (ANP) organization’s relative performance can be assessed based on its outlook and strategies, so as both the interaction between criteria and indicators and the balance between...

This book is intended to present the milestones in the progression of uncertain Data envelopment analysis (DEA). Chapter 1 gives some basic introduction to uncertain theories, including probability theory, credibility theory, uncertainty theory and chance theory. Chapter 2 presents a...

Microcredit has expanded rapidly in recent years but its effect at the household level is still controversial. This paper uses a unique dataset collected from 69 villages in Bangladesh during the period 2006-2007 to estimates the effect of participation in microcredit programs on household...