New frontiers of decision making for the information technology era / editors, Yong Shi, Milan Zeleny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shi, Young.

Zeleny, Milan, 1942-

Yu, Po-Lung, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Management information systems.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume provides users and developers of the IT/S (information technology and systems) with information about the advances in decision making and decision-making support that empower and enable information technology in the direction of productivity and effectiveness of decision making in business. The chapters have been written by well-known international experts in decision making and they explore the frontiers of decision making in the era of IT/S. The book is intended to serve as a research source, scientific reference and business support source, as well as a book of student readings that will appeal to a larger international audience.

Contents:

CONTENTS; BIO SKETCH; PREFACE; Part 1: Behavioral Issues in Decision Making; WULI-SHILI-RENLI SYSTEM APPROACH AND ITS PRACTICE IN CHINA; 1 Introduction; 2 Brief summary on WSR; 2.1 Background; 2.2 Philosophy; 2.3 Principles; 2.4 Process; 3 Applications of WSR in General; 4 Some Examples of Applications; 4.1 Technical And Management System-Water Resource Management In Qinhuangdao City; 4.2 Social system-MED plan for China Labor Market Project; 4.3 Information System-Synthetic Evaluation of Commercial Information System; Acknowledgements; References

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING FOR ORDINARY DECISIONS1 Introduction; 2 Structuring the Problem; 3 MCDM Approaches; 4 A Prototypical Approach and an Example; 5 My Experiences with Problem Solving: Using the Method of Even Swaps; 6 Some Lessons and Conclusions; References; Part 2: Multiple Criteria and Decision Support Systems; A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING COMPETENCIES OF A SOFTWARE COMPANY; 1 Introduction; 2 Problems of Incorporating Competence Sets of Subsidiaries; 3 Framework of This Decision Support System; 4 Data Edit

5 Display of Cost Networks and Model6 Display of Results; 7 Conclusions; 8 Appendix: A Model for Incorporating Competencies (Referring to Li 1999); References; QUAD TREE DATA STRUCTURES FOR USE IN LARGE-SCALE DISCRETE ALTERNATIVE MULTIPLE CRITERIA PROBLEMS; 1 Introduction; 2 Concepts and Terminologies; 3 Operations; 3.1 Identification of Nondominated Criterion Vectors; 3.2 Retrieval of Nondominated Criterion Vectors; 3.2.1 Quad Tree Approach; 3.2.2 Linear List Approach; 4 Examples; 4.1 Examples for the Identification of Nondominated Criterion Vectors

4.2 Examples for the Retrieval of Nondominated Criterion Vectors5 Computational Results; 5.1 Test Problems; 5.2 Results for Identification of Nondominated Criterion Vectors; 5.3 Results for the Retrieval of Nondominated Criterion Vectors; 6 Conclusions; References; Part 3: Objective Space Analysis; VECTOR-VALUED MINIMAX THEOREMS IN MULTICRITERIA GAMES; 1. Introduction; 2. Vector-Valued Minimax and Maximin; 3. Convexity and Semicontinuity; 4. Vector-Valued Minimax Theorems; 5. Bicriteria Matrix Game; (i) Singleton type:; (ii) Vertical or horizontal line-segment type:

(iii) General line-segment type:(iv) Parallelogram type:; (v) Butterfly type:; (vi) Envelope type:; Acknowledgments; References; ANALYSIS OF AN OUTCOME SPACE FORMULATION OF THE MULTIPLICATIVE PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; 1 Introduction and Motivation; 2 Results for the General Case; 3 Results for Convex and Polyhedral Cases; 4 Conclusions and Further Research; References; QUADRATIC PARETO RACE; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Foundations; 2.1 Problem Formulation; 2.2 A Parametric Model for Searching a Nondominated Frontier; 3 Development of the Linear Complementarity Model

3.1 Linear Complementarity Formulation

Notes:

"Thirty-nine researchers from all over the world, participating in this volume, offer here their work tribute to P.L. Yu's thirty years in MCDM."--Preface, ix.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789812792907

9812792902

OCLC:

825768155