Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface Jaime Gil-Aluja, Antonio Terceño -- Scientific Committee -- Organizing Committee -- INTRODUCTION -- The spanish school of fuzzy economics Jaime Gil-Aluja -- PART 1: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS -- Specific Max. Traveling Salesman Problems Raul O. Dichiara, Blanca I. Niel...

This book proposes a set of models to describe fuzzy multi-objective decision making (MODM), fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), fuzzy group decision making (GDM) and fuzzy multi-objective group decision-making problems, respectively. It also gives a set of related methods (including...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a widely used mathematical programming approach for comparing the inputs and outputs of a set of comparable decision making units (DMUs) by evaluating their relative efficiency. The traditional DEA methods require accurate measurement of both the inputs and...

Purpose This chapter acknowledges the difficulties in the empirical study of social ventures – broadly defined as market-driven ventures that produce social change – that arise from the vast differences among social venture firms in terms of missions, goals, identities, strategies, and...

Linear programming (LP) is an optimization technique most widely used for optimal allocation of limited resources amongst competing activities. Precise data are fundamentally indispensable in standard LP problems. However, the observed values of the data in real-world problems are often...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming approach for evaluating the relative efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in organizations. The conventional DEA methods require accurate measurement of both the inputs and outputs. However, the observed values of the input and...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric method for measuring the efficiency of peer operating units that employ multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs. Several DEA methods have been proposed for clustering operating units. However, to the best of our knowledge, the existing...