1 What operational research is and does -- 2 Measuring uncertainty -- 3 Queuing problems -- 4 Business forecasting -- 5 Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods -- 6 Stock and production control models -- 7 Resource allocation -- 8 Planning projects -- 9 Analysing decisions -- 10 Operational gaming --...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). MCDM has been an active research area for over 20 years and the previous conferences clearly showed a tremendous growth of interest. A variety of successful...