In recent years the field of decision analysis has been heavily influenced by the "analytics'' perspective, which integrates advanced data-mining and learning methods, often associated with increasing access to "Big-Data", with decision support systems. This rapidly growing and very successful...

Multi-criteria decision analysis studies decision problems in which the alternatives are evaluated on several dimensions or viewpoints. In the problems we consider in this paper, the scales used for assessing the alternatives with respect to a viewpoint are bipolar and univariate or unipolar and...

In this paper we deal with the set of $k$-additive belieffunctions dominating a given capacity. We follow the lineintroduced by Chateauneuf and Jaffray for dominating probabilities and continued by Grabisch for general $k$-additive measures.First, we show that the conditions for the general...

Learning – i.e. the acquisition of new information that leads to changes in our assessment of uncertainty – plays a prominent role in the international climate policy debate. For example, the view that we should postpone actions until we know more continues to be influential. The latest work...

Recent financial crises and scandals have focused attention on the system of governance and disclosure in a way many may never have imagined and few welcomed. Not only do reforms appear to be necessary to protect shareholders as well as other stakeholders, but also to develop a different...

Previous studies have documented that Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) could be a good tool to evaluate fund performance,especially the performance of hedge funds as it can incorporatemultiple risk-return attributes characterizing hedge fund's nonnormal return distribution in an unique performance...

This paper aims to analyze hedge fund index behavior over the 9-year period ranging from January 1994 to December 2002 with help of various statistical measures. The results indicate that hedge fund returns are not normally distributed and exhibit first order autocorrelation, a phenomenon known...

Cette communication s'intéresse à l'utilisation d'un plan de sauvegarde de l'emploi (PSE) comme outil de gestion (David, 1998, Detchessahar et Journé, 2007, Havard et Krohmer, 2008, Moisdon, 1997) posant alors la question de son appropriation et de son mode d'utilisation par les acteurs. En...

Comme d'autres économies émergentes des BRIC, la Chine enregistre aujourd'hui un flux croissant d'investissements directs étrangers sortants (IDES) tout en maintenant une forte attractivité pour les investissements directs étrangers entrants (IDEE). Le développement accéléré récent de...