Preface -- The balancing role of Best and Worst in Best-Worst Method -- Hierarchical evaluation of criteria and alternatives within BWM: A Mon-te Carlo approach -- A two-step Best-Worst Method (BWM) and K-Means clustering recom-mender system framework -- A linguistic 2-tuple Best-Worst Method --...

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems. Many of these problems can be modeled as nonlinear optimization problems, but due to their complex nature, it is not always possible to solve them...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Robust Decision Making (RDM) -- Chapter 3. Dynamic Adaptive Planning (DAP) -- Chapter 4. Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways (DAPP) -- Chapter 5. Info-Gap (IG) Decision Theory -- Chapter 6. Engineering Options Analysis (EOA) -- Chapter 7. Robust Decision Making...

Ch 1: Introduction -- Ch 2. Risk Management in a Single Country -- Ch 3. One-dimensional Public Goods in an Alliance -- Ch 4. Protection and Insurance in an Alliance -- Ch 5. Exploitation Hypothesis and Numerical Calculations -- Ch 6. Misperceptions and NGOs -- Ch 7. Financial Crises -- Ch 8....

Chapter1 Research on risk assessment and early warning of Supply Chain Based on extension in the context for new retailing -- Chapter2 Estimating Regional Water Resources Carrying Capacity Based on Big Data Analysis of Demand and Supply -- Chapter3 Relationship between Global Warming and...

1. The ‘Planning Accounting Frame’(PAF), as an instrument of the ‘programming approach’ -- 2. The spatial dimension of the Planning Accounting Framework -- 3. A ‘System of models’ for the PAF elaboration -- 4. The political and practical use of the PAF -- 5. Conclusive considerations

1. The programming approach, as futuristic decision and rational utopia -- 2. The programming approach and the old, unresolved debate of the ‘decision theory’ -- 3. The programming approach as collective decision-and-action centered analysis (and the ‘planning theory’ movement) -- 4. The...

Why can't we think straight about the big issues that face our society? Why are we taken in by the phony arguments of populists and scammers? Where are the philosophers hiding when we need them to tell us what makes sense? They are hiding because they have nothing to say. The airy-fairy answers...

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices. It first provides an overview of the latest theories of pairwise comparisons in decision making, discussing the pairwise comparison matrix, a fundamental tool for further investigation, as a deterministic matrix with given...