1. Introduction to Rankings and Decisions in Engineering -- 2. Ranking Aggregation Problem -- 3. Rankings and Measurements -- 4. Ranking Association Measures -- 5. Ranking Aggregation Techniques -- 6. Consistency of Ranking Aggregation Techniques -- 7. Case Studies in Engineering.

Introduction -- Principles and Background -- Discrete Facility Location Problems -- Decision Making under Uncertainty: Ingredients for Modeling -- Optimization under Uncertainty -- Modeling Paradigms and Solution Techniques -- Robust Facility Location -- Stochastic Facility Location -- Facility...

Making Health Security Decisions: Challenges and Complexities -- Making Reasoned Health Security Decisions: Key Concepts and Main Benefits -- Framing Health Security Decisions -- Specifying Relevant Objectives and Consequences in Health Security Decisions -- Assessing Impacts of Threats and...

Part I: Introduction to the DIGRAPH3 Python Resources -- 1. Working with the DIGRAPH3 Python Resources -- 2. Working with Bipolar-Valued Digraphs -- 3. Working with Outranking Digraphs -- Part II: Evaluation Models and Decision Algorithms -- 4. Building a Best Choice Recommendation -- 5. How to...

Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book has twelve practical chapters. Elementary concepts and definitions are gradually built in Chapters 1-6 based upon four examples of one...

This book presents classical Markov Decision Processes (MDP) for real-life applications and optimization. MDP allows users to develop and formally support approximate and simple decision rules, and this book showcases state-of-the-art applications in which MDP was key to the solution approach....

Chapter 1: Mathematical Modeling and Operations Research for Military Decision Making -- Chapter 2: Statistics, Probability, and Model Fitting -- Chapter 3 Model Fitting with Regression -- Chapter 4: Mathematical Programming (Optimization) -- Chapter 5: Decision Analysis using Multi-attribute...

Behavioral Decision Analysis - Past, Present and Future -- Behavioral Decision Research: Descriptive and Prescriptive Perspectives -- Behavioral Biases in the Uncertainty Quantification Process -- Analyzing Decisions Under Uncertainty: Simple Tools Of the Heathens -- Should an Analyst Share...

The Analytic Network Process -- Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgement Approach -- An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting -- Outsourcing a Firm's Application Development Group -- ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge, an ANP...