E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the e-learning business activities. The valuation of e-learning business activities is a challenging...

Supplier selection is a critical decision in supply chain management. Although organizations devote significant resources to establish detailed operating plans with suppliers, a few have developed mature risk management programs to deal with supplier failures. Past performances and survey data...

The procurement of transportation services via large-scale combinatorial auctions involves a couple of complex decisions whose outcome highly influences the performance of the tender process. This paper examines the shipper's task of selecting a subset of the submitted bids which efficiently...

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) is a method to formulate the strategy. Although the SWOT analysis successfully provides the key factors of the problem, it has some drawbacks in selecting appropriate strategy for the evaluation and final decision steps. During...

This paper presents a novel multicriteria procedure for nominal classification problems. Assignment of an action to a category is based on the comparison between action and category's least typical representative, which is considered as the category inclusion threshold. Evaluation is executed...

This study presents the first attempt to develop classification models for the prediction of share repurchases using multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) methods. The MCDA models are developed using two methods namely UTilités Additives DIScriminantes (UTADIS) and ELimination and Choice Expressing...

This paper examines the various multi-criteria approaches of fuzzy classification rule mining. An updated state-of-the-art multi-objective genetic algorithm is given. Further, various genetic algorithm-based fuzzy classification rule mining techniques are studied. In view of the intractability...

In a growingly competitive business environment, numerous organizations adopt the total quality management (TQM) approach, to struggle for business excellence. To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use self-assessment on a regular basis....

The evaluation of research work is an essential element of the scientific enterprise. In general, the evaluation of researchers and their work is highly dependent on the social and economic condition of the country in which the researchers work. The most-used model to evaluate research was based...

There is a growing literature that employs nonparametric frontier methods in order to evaluate the performance of investment funds. This paper proposes an integrated approach for analyzing the efficiency and performance of mutual funds. The methodology combines data envelopment analysis (DEA)...