Management decision making

Quantitative Sociodynamics presents a general strategy for interdisciplinary model building and its application to a quantitative description of behavioural changes based on social interaction processes.

Data envelopment analysis develops a set of nonparametric and semiparametric techniques for measuring economic efficiency among firms and nonprofit organizations.

With the vision that machines can be rendered smarter, we have witnessed for more than a decade tremendous engineering efforts to implement intelligent sys- tems.

Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors.

Econometrics as an applied discipline attempts to use information in a most efficient manner, yet the information theory and entropy approach developed by Shannon and others has not played much of a role in applied econometrics.

Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface.

Many social or economic conflict situations can be modeled by specifying the alternatives on which the involved parties may agree, and a special alternative which summarizes what happens in the event that no agreement is reached.

Intelligent decision support is based on human knowledge related to a specific part of a real or abstract world.

Economic and financial research on insurance markets has undergone dramatic growth since its infancy in the early 1960s.

Since its inception 20 years ago the theory of fuzzy sets has advanced in a variety of ways and in many disciplines.

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Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery.

This book presents the content of a year's course in decision processes for third and fourth year students given at the University of Toronto.

The study of the theory of games was started in Von Neumann (1928), but the development of the theory of games was accelerated after the publication of the classical book "e;Theory of games and economic behavior"e; by Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944).

It isn't that they can't see the solution.

This book presents a set of papers from the leading edge of current research on productivity analysis.

This work is conceived as a modem study of the relationships of the concept of human freedom with the moral concepts of responsibility and obligation and other closely allied notions.

Realization of productivity gains is a necessary condition for long-term consistent improvement in economic well being.

The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications.

There is a wide variety of perspectives for productivity analysis.

This text is based on a course of about 16 hours lectures to students of mathematics, statistics, and/or operational research.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand.

FIRST PART Preparation of the Investment 1.

Rule-based fuzzy modeling has been recognised as a powerful technique for the modeling of partly-known nonlinear systems.

Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries.

Fuzzy Algorithms for Control gives an overview of the research results of a number of European research groups that are active and play a leading role in the field of fuzzy modeling and control.

The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much- neglected problem in practical reasoning.

This book is about the role of expert systems in marketing, particularly in the consumer goods industry.

Previously, the conventional wisdom about organizations was "e;If it's not broken, then don't fix it.

Over eleven years have passed since the last NATO sponsored meeting on Fishing which took the form of a Conference held in Trondheim in 1979.

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In this volume we present some of the papers delivered at FUR-IV - the Fourth International Conference on Founda- tions and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory in Budapest, June 1988.

To-date computers are supposed to store and exploit knowledge.

The present book treats a highly specialized topic, namely effec- tivity functions, which are a tool for describing the power structure implicit in social choice situations of various kind.

The Conference on "e;Utility: Theories, Measurements, and Applications"e; met at the Inn at Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz, California, from June II to 15, 1989.

As desired, the infonnation demand correspondence is single valued at equilibrium prices.

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research.

In the Russian edition published in 1989, this book was called "e;Minimax Algorithms in Problems of Numerical Analysis"e;.

PREFACE TO THE COLLECTION PREAMBLE The editors are pleased to present a selection of Henri Theil's contributions to economics and econometrics in three volumes.

Fuzzy data such as marks, scores, verbal evaluations, imprecise observations, experts' opinions and grey tone pictures, are quite common.

PREFACE TO THE COLLECTION PREAMBLE The editors are pleased to present a selection of Henri Theil's contributions to economics and econometrics in three volumes.

PREFACE TO THE COLLECTION PREAMBLE The editors are pleased to present a selection of Henri Theil's contributions to economics and econometrics in three volumes.

Two related trends have created novel challenges for managing risk in the United States.