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Fuzzy multiple criteria base realignment and closure (BRAC) benchmarking system at the Department of Defense

Tavana, Madjid; Bourgeois, Brian S.; Sodenkamp, Mariya A. - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 16 (2009) 2, pp. 192-221

Purpose – The US Government adopted the base realignment and closure (BRAC) to resolve the military, economic and political issue of excess base capacity. There have been five rounds of BRAC since 1988, and more are expected to come in the years ahead. The complexity of the closure and...

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The good company

O'Boyle, Edward J.; Solari, Stefano; Demetrio … - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 11 (2011) 1, pp. 64-76

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the argument that in principle any company can become a good company by adopting certain characteristics which define the good in enterprise affairs and affirm and reinforce everyone with a stake in the company – managers, workers, suppliers,...

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Decision waves: consumer decisions in today's complex world

Lye, Ashley; Shao, Wei; Rundle‐Thiele, Sharyn; … - In: European Journal of Marketing 39 (2005) 1/2, pp. 216-230

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the dominant consumer decision theory models and understand why that … theory has received little empirical validation. A “decision waves” theory is proposed – an alternative, multi‐phase approach … to decision making using image theory. An approach to validating empirically the multi‐phase theory is outlined. Design …

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AI and Neuroeconomics: New Conceptual Models for Old-Fashioned Philosophical Problems

D'Avanzo, Ernesto - In: International Journal of Smart Education and Urban … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 39-48

This article describes how Plato proposed the dualistic solution to the mind-body problem, providing an explanation along the lines of his epistemology. Francis Bacon, in 1600, formulated his vision of the scientific method that will be valid until the 1960's when Karl Popper proposed his...

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Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Heuristic Search

MacLeod, W. Bentley - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 1 (2002) 1

role of emotion in rational choice theory. …

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Preference for Variety

Kaiser, Karen; Schwabe, Rainer - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 12 (2012) 1

We consider a decision maker who enjoys choosing from a varied set of alternatives. Building on behavioral evidence, we propose testable axioms which characterize preference for variety and provide a representation theorem. We go on to illustrate the potential effects of preference for variety...

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A guide to value of information methods for prioritising research in health impact modelling

Jackson, Christopher; Johnson, Robert; de Nazelle, Audrey; … - In: Epidemiologic Methods 10 (2021) 1

Abstract Health impact simulation models are used to predict how a proposed policy or scenario will affect population health outcomes. These models represent the typically-complex systems that describe how the scenarios affect exposures to risk factors for disease or injury (e.g. air pollution...

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Comment on: “Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality”

Shpitser, Ilya - In: Journal of Causal Inference 10 (2022) 1, pp. 190-196

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Causation and decision: On Dawid’s “Decision theoretic foundation of statistical causality”

Pearl, Judea - In: Journal of Causal Inference 10 (2022) 1, pp. 221-226

on statistical decision theory and that is, in many aspects, compatible with the familiar framework of causal graphs (e …

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Sequential Decision Analysis of the Traditional Deterrence Game

Carlson, Lisa J.; Dacey, Raymond - In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 10 (2004) 3

employ sequential decision theory to analyze the game of incomplete information. The analysis is basic in that we employ a …

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