Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide Applications

This chapter describes a study conducted at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, in their School of Business. The study was to explore the applicability of a judgment-analytic decision support system to the assessment of the likelihood of an applicant being selected for admission to...

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Other Authors: Zanakis, Stelios H. (Editor), Doukidis, Georgios (Editor), Zopounidis, Constantin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Applied Optimization
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Information effects on the accuracy of neural network financial forecasting
  • Is the Taiwan stock market efficient?
  • The dynamics of implied volatility surfaces
  • Application of nonstationary Markovian models to risk management in automobile leasing
  • 6. Optimization & Decision Making
  • Decision making Under Various Types of Uncertainty
  • Decision aid in the optimization of the interval objective function
  • A fuzzy extension of a mixed integer MOLP model for solving the power generation expansion problem
  • Management science for marine petroleum logistics
  • 7. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Aid & Practice
  • Dealing with missing data in rough set analysis of multi-attribute and multi-criteria decision problems
  • Cardinal value measurement with MACBETH
  • Inferring a multicriteria preference model for rural development projects evaluation
  • An adaptable frameworkfor educational software evaluation
  • Assessing country risk using a multi—group discrimination method: A comparative analysis
  • 8. Decision Support Systems and Information Technology
  • RODOS: Decision support for nuclear emergencies
  • DSS for the evaluation of national IT infrastructure investments: A study of cable television in Greece
  • Global IT outsourcing decisions: Contract structure, negotiations, and global deal teams
  • Using Internet multimedia database information systems for decision support in conservation planning
  • An interactive workload and risk balancing model and decision support system for probationer assignment
  • 9. Health Care Planning & Hospital Operations
  • A goal programming scheme to determine the budget assignment among the hospitals of a sanitary system
  • A simulation model to evaluate the interaction between acute, rehabilitation, long stay care and the community
  • Author Index
  • 1. Management Information Systems
  • Empirical assessment of information technology chargeback systems decisions
  • Lessons learnt from the successful adoption of an ERP: The central role of trust
  • Simultaneous analysis of heterogenous databases on the web: The ADDSIA project
  • 2. Education Innovations & Distance Learning
  • Decision support for the management of admissions to academic programs
  • The use of tacit knowledge in selection decisions in universities
  • 3. International Business
  • Role of political violence in foreign direct investment decisions
  • On the stability of countries’ national technological systems
  • 4. Marketing
  • Marketing of differentiated fresh produce
  • A decision support system for the seller’s return problem in the product line design
  • 5. Finance and Banking
  • Portfolio performance measures: A brief survey and hypothesis testing
  • A system dynamics model of stock price movements