This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scanner systems can be used to improve inventory decisions, and develops a data-driven approach that integrates demand forecasting and inventory...

Promotions are at the same time beloved and feared by both food retailers and branded goods manufacturers in today’s retail environment. Beloved because they attract smart customers and generate an immediate effect on a brand’s sale. Feared because there is uncertainty about the...

In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world. Environmental impacts of human economic activity necessitate the consideration of conflicting goals in decision making processes to...

In the recent years, the study of cointegrated time series and the use of error correction models have become extremely popular in the econometric literature. This book provides an analysis of the notion of (weak) exogeneity, which is necessary to sustain valid inference in sub-systems, inthe...

This book contains full bibliographic information (inclusive keywords) aboutthe literature on Stochastic Orderings and their Applications in the following fields: Choice under Risk, Finance, Inequality, Measurement, Economic Theory, Special Economic Applications, Decision Methodology, Queueing,...

In this book problems related to the choice of models in such diverse fields as regression, covariance structure, time series analysis and multinomial experiments are discussed. The emphasis is on the statistical implications for model assessment when the assessment is done with the same data...

This monograph is a contribution to the theory of encompassing. It formalizes the idea that a model should be able to explain the result to obtained by other, rival models. From the properties of the encompassing relation established here, it follows that encompassing can be used as a...

The subject of the book is an approach to the modeling of and the reasoning under uncertainty. It develops the Dempster-Shafer Theory as a theory of the reliability of reasoning with uncertain arguments. A particular interest of this approach is that it yields a new synthesis and integration of...

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....

General Remarks on Robust Solutions -- Modeling of Uncertainty and Probabilistic Issues -- On Joint Modelling of Random Uncertainty and Fuzzy Imprecision -- On the Approximation of a Discrete Multivariate Probability Distribution Using the New Concept of -Cherry Junction Tree -- Robust Solutions...