.... Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a novel procedure of multi-criteria evaluation of demand forecasting models, simultaneously considering several error measures and their interdependencies based on a two-stage multi-criteria decision-making approach. Analytical Network Process combined...

... as: (6) p ( t ) = ∫ 0 t F A d ( t − u ) d N A w ( u ) N A w ( t ) The distribution function of cumulative number of adopters up to time t: Decision making Awareness Adoption Diffusion of innovation Multi-stage diffusion...

...): Decision making Qualitative research Quantitative methods Interpretive structural modelling MICMAC analysis Analytical models The concept of the liberalization and globalization has led the market to a place, where consumers have multiple choices of similar products and many brands put...

... of the situation and discusses its managerial implications. Findings The human immune system can be benchmarked to model decision making under competitive environment, such as biddings in auctions and obtains gainful insights. Practical implications Various engineering, management, social science...

...Robert Rugimbana; Yohanes Kristianto; Petri Helo; Josu Takala Purpose This paper focuses on decision making related to the use of strategic inventory allocation in product platform design. The purpose of the paper is to present a novel approach to managing product variety by considering product...

... decision making is formulated. Section 4 describes various elements of dynamic programming under which the model is analyzed. The algorithm for the optimal policy under which decisions are made is described in section 5. Details of the experiments are mentioned in section 6. The results are discussed...

... and can be obtained by various estimation techniques. The interval DEA model provides for the decision making units (DMUs) with missing values a lower and an upper bound of their efficiency score corresponding to their most favorable and unfavorable option. Findings Employing the proposed method...

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...Anjali Awasthi; Jean‐Marie Proth This paper presents a systems based approach for the city logistics decision making. Using this approach, we present the layout of a simulation model called CILOSIM (CITY‐LOGISTICS‐SIMULATION). CILOSIM encapsulates three sub‐models namely...

...Anjali Awasthi; Rahul Varman Decision‐making processes can be thought of as the brain and nervous system of an organization. In the rapidly changing world nowadays, information technology has become an indispensable part of every organization. The extent to which the information technology affects...