Supply chains have become the major and dominant paradigm of business and competition. The main challenge is how to act in multi-echelon supply chains considering the levels involved. Making a choice independently or integrating with some or all levels will be a critical decision, and therefore...

Real-world decision-making problems often consist in considering multiple and antithetic objectives. Therefore, multi-objective decision making (MODM) is a practical framework in implicational areas. In this paper, a fuzzy MODM problem is considered, where all of its parameters are defined...

Companies pursuing extension of their activities and new companies in establishment phase are using various concepts and techniques to consider location decision, because location greatly affects both fixed and variable costs and on the overall profit of the company. This paper suggests a new...

<title>Abstract</title>Export promotion programs are incentives to increase the participation of companies in international markets. On the other hand, governments try to help exporting companies with developing their goal markets. Therefore, for this purpose, many different programs have been created. To show...

<title>Abstract</title>Supply chain (SC) management aims to increase the overall profit through improvement of various activities and components. Many contradictions between parts and different levels of a SC have been identified in order to achieve overall objectives. Such shortfalls may result in decreased...

DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS <bold> <italic>Reviewed book:</italic> </bold> Dalé Dzemydiené. <italic>Intelektualizuotų informacinių sistemų projektavimas ir taikymas</italic>: monografija. Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universiteto leidybos centras, 2006. 352 p. [Design and Application of Intelligent Information...

OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR A STAKEHOLDER SOCIETY <bold> <italic>Reviewed book:</italic> </bold> Willem K. Brauers. <italic>Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society: A Revolution in Economic Thinking by Multi‐objective Optimization</italic>. Boston / Dordrecht / London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

<title>Abstract</title> This paper considers the application of methodology for the defining the utility and market value of a real estate. The theoretical basis of the methodology is developed. The proposed methods, the method of multiple criteria complex proportional assessment (COPRAS) and the method of...

<title>Abstract</title> Sustainable development principles reaching many spheres of human activities, public buildings refurbishment is not an exemption in this case. Buildings refurbishment supports excellent opportunities to reduce energy consumption in buildings as well as encourages other sustainable...