"Application of Decision Science in Business and Management" ed. by Fausto Pedro García Márquez

This volume is dedicated to Business and Management and Application of Decision Science. The book provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of decision making. It is complementary to other sub-disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, decision and risk analysis, etc.

The chapters introduce and demonstrate a decision-making theory to practice case studies. It demonstrates key results for each sector with diverse real-world case studies. Theory is accompanied by relevant analysis techniques, with a progressive approach building from simple theory to complex and dynamic decisions with multiple data points, including big data, lot of data, etc. Computational techniques, dynamic analysis, probabilistic methods, and mathematical optimization techniques are expertly blended to support analysis of multi-criteria decision-making problems with defined constraints and requirements.

Contents
1.The Role of Reviews in Decision-Making
2.Decision-Making in Fuzzy Environment: A Survey
3.Business and Information System Alignment Theories Built on eGovernment Service Practice: An Holistic Literature Review
4.How Does Socio-Technical Approach Influence Sustainability? Considering the Roles of Decision Making Environment
5.A Framework for Detecting the Proper Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method Taking into Account the Characteristics of Third-Party Logistics, the Requirements of Managers, and the Type of Input Data
6.Decision Rule Induction Based on the Graph Theory
7.Inventory Policies for Deteriorating Items with Maximum Lifetime under Downstream Partial Trade Credits to Credit-Risk Customers by Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
8.The Role of Wealth in Gain and Loss Perception: An Empirical Analysis
9.Saving Time in Portfolio Optimization on Financial Markets
10.A Global Method for a Two-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem in the Manufacturing Industry
11.Selection of Food Items for Diet Problem Using a Multi-objective Approach under Uncertainty
12.Contribution of Professional Pedagogy to Decision-Making
13.A Query Matching Approach for Object Relational Databases Over Semantic Cache