This book discusses the art and science of economic decision making. It combines logical thinking with analytics, economics, and finance to draw decision insights for the upstream petroleum projects. The book offers useful analysis skills for practitioners in industry, including analysts,...

Making Health Security Decisions: Challenges and Complexities -- Making Reasoned Health Security Decisions: Key Concepts and Main Benefits -- Framing Health Security Decisions -- Specifying Relevant Objectives and Consequences in Health Security Decisions -- Assessing Impacts of Threats and...

1. Introduction -- 2. Linear Programming -- 3. Multiobjective Programming -- 4. Nonlinear Programming -- 5. Integer Linear Programming -- 6. Network Models -- 7. Location Models -- 8. Project Networks -- 9. Machine Scheduling -- 10. Decision Analysis -- 11. Multiattribute Decision Making -- 12....

Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...

Pairwise comparison is commonly used to estimate the priority values of finite alternatives with respect to a given criterion. We evaluate seven specially selected direct methods of estimating priority vectors from reciprocal pairwise comparison matrices under four effectiveness measures. A...

Gower plots provide a powerful graphical tool to detect cardinal and ordinal inconsistencies in a pairwise preference matrix. However, there is no systematical way to help a decision maker to reduce these inconsistencies. This paper develops a model that can assist in making a consistent...

The generation of Pareto optimal solutions for complex systems with multiple conflicting objectives can be easier if the problem can be decomposed and solved as a set of smaller coordinated subproblems. In this paper, a new decomposition-coordination method is proposed, where the global problem...