This book offers valuable insights into the management of uncertainty and business enterprises risk. Propelled by clear construct and communication, Nishimura introduces an innovate model (COLC) that embodies forward-looking, globalized understandings of how managers can exploit profit...

Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners...

This book introduces methods for uncertain multi-attribute decision making including uncertain multi-attribute group decision making and their applications to supply chain management, investment decision making, personnel assessment, redesigning products, maintenance services, military system...

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives....

Framing the Risk Challenge -- Understanding the Hidden Risk of Dynamic Complexity -- Understanding the Nature of Risk -- Human Interaction and Perception of Risk -- Risk Evolves as Experience Evolves -- Why the Risk Comes as a Surprise -- Systemic and Systematic Risk -- How Risk is Currently...

Value Flexibility - It Propels Sustainable Decisions -- Evolution of the New Approach -- Solving the Mystery of Uncertainty -- Making Bull's-eye Decisions in Volatile Settings -- Flexibility Surprises - Its Significance and Its Value -- The Total Value of Today's Decisions and Tomorrow's --...

Random Set Theory -- Random Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Bi-random Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Random Fuzzy Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Random Rough Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Methodological System for RLMODM -- Some Mathematical Aids -- Some Procedures

1 Introduction -- 2 Basic Tools in Medical Decision Making -- 3 Expected Utility, Risk Aversion and Prudence -- 4 Treatment Decisions Without Diagnostic Tests -- 5 Treatment Decisions with Diagnostic Tests -- 6 Treatment Decisions Under Comorbidity Risk -- 7 Optimal Strategy for Multiple...

Ongoing global changes pose fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. Uncertainty can dominate, as in the...

The increasingly complex environment of today's world, characterized by technological innovation and global communication, generates myriads of possible and actual interactions while limited physical and intellectual resources severely impinge on decision makers, be it in the public or private...