When comparing and evaluating performance, decision-makers are concerned with providing a range of effective, efficient, and fair measures that can yield representative relative rankings for the units being evaluated. In this chapter, we apply three multicriteria benchmarking modeling techniques...

A major consequence of global environmental change is projected to be the alteration in flood periodicity, magnitude, and geographic patterns. There are a number of extant methods designed to help identify areas vulnerable to these consequences, the construction of composite vulnerability...

Volume 13 of Advances in Business and Management Forecastingpresents state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to areas such as sales forecasting, retailing, service contracts, bankruptcy prediction, executive compensation, and call center staffing.