Spanish savings banks (SBs) are financial institutions with a wide mission that includes different stakeholders' goals. Profit maximization is only one among several goals, a...
In this paper, we study a multi-stage production sourcing problem where tariff concessions can be exploited at the firm level using free trade agreements between countries. To sol...
Yunsong Guo, Yanzhi Li, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigue...
The first comprehensive survey paper on scheduling problems with separate setup times or costs was conducted by [Allahverdi, A., Gupta, J.N.D., Aldowaisan, T., 1999. A review of s...
Ali Allahverdi, C. T. Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikha...
We study a queueing network where customers go through several stages of processing, with the class of a customer used to indicate the stage of processing. The customers are servic...
A lot of research has been devoted to the critical analysis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), from various perspectives. However, as far as we know, no one has addressed a ...
The paper presents the author's partial and personal historical reconstruction of how decision theory is evolving to a decision aiding methodology. The presentation shows mai...
Beta is a widely used quantity in investment analysis. We review the common interpretations that are applied to beta in finance and show that the standard method of estimation