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...

Fuzzy Logic in Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management. This explicit theme is developed through the book as follows: Chapter 1, "Management and Intelligent...

This book presents recent findings and results concerning the solutions of especially finite state-space Markov decision problems and determining Nash equilibria for related stochastic games with average and total expected discounted reward payoffs. In addition, it focuses on a new class of...

Game Theory Models in Finance -- Game Theory Models in Accounting -- Game Theory Models in Operations Management and Information Systems -- Incentive Contracting and the Franchise Decision -- Cooperative Games and Business Strategy -- Renegotiation in the Repeated Amnesty Dilemma, with Economic...

Introduction -- Game Theory Models in Finance -- Game Theoretic Models in Accounting -- GT and Marketing -- Game Theoretic Models in Operations Management and Information Systems -- Incentive Contracting and Franchise Decisions -- Game Theory and the Practice of Bargaining -- GT Models of...

This book provides a broad coverage of the recent advances in robustness analysis in decision aiding, optimization, and analytics. It offers a comprehensive illustration of the challenges that robustness raises in different operations research and management science (OR/MS) contexts and the...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Structured Expert Judgement -- Chapter 2. Recent advances in the elicitation of uncertainty distributions from experts for multinomial probabilities -- Chapter 3. Are Performance Weights Beneficial? Investigating the Random Expert Hypothesis -- Chapter 4....

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: How to Make a Decision -- 2: The Seven Pillars of the AHP -- 3: Architectural Design -- 4: Designing A Mousetrap -- 5: Designing the Best Catamaran -- 6: The Selection of A Bridge -- 7: Measuring Dependence Between Activities: Input Output Application to the Sudan -- 8: Technological Choice...

Chapter 1. Multicriteria Decision Methods for RRM Models -- Chapter 2. Comparing Cardinal and Ordinal Ranking in MCDM Methods -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Multi-Criteria Decisions Under Conditions of Strong Uncertainty -- Chapter 4. A Framework for Building Multicriteria Decision Models with regard...