Falco Jaekel develops a reference architecture for cloud logistics systems. The reference architecture shows how to apply the principles and concepts of cloud computing (e.g. virtualization, service-orientation) to logistics system design and thus how to deliver certain physical logistics...

What Is a Decision Problem? Designing Alternatives -- MCDA Approaches for Efficient Strategic Decision Making -- Collaborative Decision Making for Small Groups utilizing UTA Methods -- Disaggregation Approaches for Multicriteria Classification: An Overview -- Multiple Criteria Approaches for...

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...

Part 1. Modelling -- 1.Reference Models -- Chapter 2.Mathematical Models -- Chapter 3.Production Bottlenecks Models -- 4. Multi-Criteria Models and Decision Making -- 5.Planning Inputs -- 6.Demand Forecasting -- 7.Examples of Advanced Planning Models -- Part II. Planning Processes --...

In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management. The...

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...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017. The field of Group Decision and Negotiation focuses on decision processes with at least two participants and a common goal...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2016, held in Bellingham, WA, USA, in June 2016. The GDN meetings aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide spectrum of fields, including economics,...