Decision theory: general

The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space (ACUUS 2023) held in Singapore from November 1 to 4, 2023.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXXI International Congress INGEGRAF "e;Graphic Expression: reunion, reflection, representation,"e; held on June 29-30 and July 1, 2021, in Malaga, Spain.

This fully updated new edition of a respected text retains the original's comprehensive and practical approach to food supply chain management, and introduces a global perspective and a wide range of new material.

Yield management has always been considered a teclinique for large companies, whether these be airlines, railroad, car rental or hotel companies.

This book looks more closely at how natural disasters impact bank activity and how banks can support economic recovery after a natural disaster.

This book draws on financial, economic, and management theory in its exploration of the theory underlying risk and risk management at both micro- and macroeconomic levels.

Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute to the sustainable development of societies?

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, the 2006-07 market bubble, the development of institutional investors, the stock index futures market, stock sector performance, corporate governance of listed firms and China's growth enterprise market.

This book deals with the debated relationship between the characteristics of national supervision and manipulative practices in banks' annual reports, with a specific focus on income smoothing.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes.

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements?

This book provides professionals and practitioners with a comprehensive guide on credit risk modeling, capital modeling, and validation for Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL), International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9), Basel Capital and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) procedures.

To meet the needs of today, engineered products and systems are an important element of the world economy, and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of products and systems around the globe.

This book addresses reliability, maintenance, risk, and safety issues of industrial systems with applications of the latest decision-making techniques.

Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and consultant in the field.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Tenth Edition has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects and failures for over 40 years.

This book discusses risk management as it applies to problem-solving for simple, complex and wicked problems faced by policy creators and implementors, project managers and systems engineers in the context of policies, large engineering projects (LEPs), projects and systems.

Risk is the main source of uncertainty for investors, debtholders, corporate managers and other stakeholders.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 20th International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW), which was held in Guimaraes, Portugal on May 8-10, 2024.

This one-stop, interdisciplinary overview of compliance explains what compliance is, how it is studied, and what factors shape it.

This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey data analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching.

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know-aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable.

This book serves as a technical yet practical risk management manual for professionals working with water and wastewater organizations.

This book directs the engineering manager or the undergraduate student preparing to become an engineering manager, who is or will become actively engaged in the management of economic-risk trade-off decisions for engineering investments within an organizational system.

Do the reasons we have for acting as we do derive from our concerns and desires, or are there objective values in the world that we are rationally required to pursue and protect?

This book statistically confirms that complexity and changing technologies that affect the way operators interact within the systems of the nuclear facili-ties exacerbate the severity of incidents caused by human error and details the application of the systems engineering process to reduce human error given industries' rapidly advancing technology.

This textbook offers an easily understandable introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial mathematics and financial engineering.

Enables readers to improve risk assessments and how they use them, by grounding their practice on scientific principles.

This book presents recent advances in performability analysis methods and their applications in different fields.

Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Student Edition This comprehensive textbook provides a complete introduction to risk management in health care.

This book provides a comprehensive demonstration of risk analysis as a distinct science covering risk understanding, assessment, perception, communication, management, governance and policy.

This proceedings book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on risk and risk management.

This safari will send students on an expedition that will result in hours of good thinking and unbridled enthusiasm.

From natural disasters to cyber-attacks to global pandemics, the modern risk environment is highly complex and challenges our fundamental understanding of risk and crisis management.

To meet the needs of today, engineered products and systems are an important element of the world economy, and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of products and systems around the globe.

This book traces the development and analyses the performance of life insurance industry in India, since inception of this sector, using different business indicators over the years.

This textbook provides the tools for a modern post-graduate introductory course on system reliability theory.

The book covers the broad area of Corporate Governance (CG) and its constituents.

In this book, a risk management approach starts off by discussing important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives during VUCA times.

This book provides a critical analysis of existing enterprise risk management models and practices and proposes innovative solutions to address the challenges associated with implementing enterprise risk management strategies.

With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students' academic performance.

School Leader Problem-Solving Skills: Situational Judgment Tests from School Leaders is designed with the aspiring or beginning administrator in mind to help them grow in their role and become effective problem-solvers.

This second edition of the book analyses the latest developments in investment management policy for institutional investors.

The Risk Management Handbook offers readers knowledge of current best practice and cutting-edge insights into new developments within risk management.

This authoritative reference work presents comprehensive information about one of the most important and most wide-spread classes of (bio)organic compounds: the polysaccharides.