Providing a comprehensive overview of various methods and applications in decision engineering, this book presents chapters written by a range experts in the field. It presents conceptual aspects of decision support applications in various areas including finance, vendor selection, construction, process management, water management and energy, agribusiness , production scheduling and control, and waste management. In addition to this, a special focus is given to methods of multi-criteria decision analysis.Decision making in organizations is a recurrent theme and is essential for business continuity. Managers from various fields including public, private, industrial, trading or service sectors are required to make decisions. Consequently managers need the support of these structured methods in order to engage in effective decision making.This book provides a valuable resource for graduate students, professors and researchers of decision analysis, multi-criteria decision analysi
s and group decision analysis. It is also intended for production engineers, civil engineers and engineering consultants.
Stochastic cash flow management models: A literature review since the 1980s.- Financial Performance of Brazilian Banks using a Multi-Attribute Model based on Maximum Entropy Principle.- Decision Models in Credit Risk Management.- Dynamic models for production control and scheduling.- A multicriteria decision model for classifying management processes.- A multi-criteria decision support system for supplier selection.- Analyzing trust in negotiation processes of Interorganizational partnerships.- Decision making regarding information sharing in partnerships with suppliers.- Multicriteria decision models in industrial energy management systems.- Multicriteria decision analysis applied to water supply network.- The proximity of poverty and the disposal of solid waste generated by civil construction.- Support Vector Machine as a Decision Analyst"s Tool to choose fields in Civil Engineering.- Decision models in e-waste management and policy: A review.- A proposal based on hard and soft
systems for public policies family farms.- The data envelopment analysis in setting some strategies for improving the eco-efficiency and sustainability.
