Material transportation for high-rise building construction relies heavily on tower cranes. Hence the proper use of tower cranes is of paramount importance for high-rise residential building construction. In planning and monitoring crane usage in Hong Kong, a schedule is usually prepared to...

Details the process whereby multivariate interdisciplinary measures of potential to perform are integrated with performance measures to develop models of retail performance for bank branches. The predictive models use the key business drivers of a major trading bank as dependent variables....

Studies the justification problems of automated manufacturing systems (AMS) by using a multiple‐criteria decision making (MCDM) approach such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP). An example from Indian manufacturing has been studied. Strategic, technological and social impacts have been...

Examines the generally acknowledged field of considerable importance to marketers, e.g. problems of analysing brand image data and the best areas for development of product benefits. Stresses that consumers find difficulty in finding large differences between competing products and brands....

Looks at multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) a technique used to discover differences of the members of one group from another. Stresses that in marketing MDA is better used as a method of identifying the discriminant characteristics between market segments. Says that MDA works by providing...