I. Introduction -- II. Basic Concepts and Foundations -- 1. Definitions -- 2. Models for MADM -- 3. Transformation of Attributes -- 4. Fuzzy Decision Rules -- 5. Methods for Assessing Weight -- III. Methods for Multiple Attribute Decision Making -- 1. Methods for No Preference Information Given...

The aim of this book is to document, on a solid and convincing foundation, two public policy mistakes of the United States Government that have been extremely costly. First, the failure to combine stocks with long-term government bonds in the Social Security Trust Fund, the way other nations do,...

This chapter deals with the issue of measuring quality of work according to the subjective perception that each single worker has of it. The essay starts out from the definition put forward by Gallino (1993), who identifies four dimensions of the quality of labour (ergonomic, of complexity, of...