Selection of an appropriate Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method for providing a solution to a given MADM problem is always challenging endeavour. The challenge is even greater for situations where for a specific MADM problem there exist multiple MADM methods with similar degree of...

Copulas are a quite flexible and useful tool for modeling the dependence structure between two or more variables or components of bivariate and multivariate vectors, in particular, to predict losses in insurance and finance. In this article, we use the VineCopula package in R to study the...

Evaluation of student performance in any course, especially those delivered in a management programme, poses a serious challenge; more so, in a course like "Business Communication", where oral communication ought to form an integral part of evaluation. This paper presents various details of an...

Unprecedented changes sweeping the world during the last few years have given rise to the need for the development and adoption of contingency strategies. This requires firms to have strategic flexibility in every aspect of their operation. Vendor development strategies constitute an important...

We formalise and present an innovative general approach for developing complex system models from survey data by applying Bayesian Networks. The challenges and approaches to converting survey data into usable probability forms are explained and a general approach for integrating expert knowledge...

During the past decade or so there had been a mushrooming growth in the number of private-sector institutions offering MBA or MBA-type programmes. In India, for example, close to some 1500 institutions are offering MBA or MBA-type programmes. Majority of these institutions belong to the private...

Evaluation of student performance in any course, especially those delivered in a management programme, poses a serious challenge; more so, in a course like "Business Communication", where oral communication ought to form an integral part of evaluation. This paper presents various details of an...

We formalise and present an innovative general approach for developing complex system models from survey data by applying Bayesian Networks. The challenges and approaches to converting survey data into usable probability forms are explained and a general approach for integrating expert knowledge...

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