This book helps to solve the problem of substantial waste and inefficiency in port production by analyzing operational efficiency at more than 30 Chinese and Korean leading container ports using three types of DEA model. In addition it offers a returns-to-scale analysis, which is particularly...

The book focuses on forecasting foreign exchange rates via artificial neural networks. It creates and applies the highly useful computational techniques of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to foreign-exchange-rate forecasting. The result is an up-to-date review of the most recent research...

Analysis of Pull Postponement by EOQ-based Models -- Analysis of Postponement Strategy by EPQ-based Models -- Evaluation of a Postponement System with an (r, q) Policy -- Simulation of a Two-End-Product Postponement System -- Application of Postponement: Examples from Industry -- Conclusions,...

This book is a comparative study of the critical factors in berth productivity in Chinese and South Korean container terminals. It first defines the concept of berth productivity, and then establishes a regression model to evaluate the productivity factor. With the results obtained for the...

Introduction -- Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand -- Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry -- Coordination of Supply...

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM...