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Decision-Making Management - A Tutorial and Applications (Paperback): Alberto Pliego Marugan, Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez Decision-Making Management - A Tutorial and Applications (Paperback)
Alberto Pliego Marugan, Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez
R2,295 R2,171 Discovery Miles 21 710 Save R124 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Decision-Making Management: A Tutorial and Applications provides practical guidance for researchers seeking to optimizing business-critical decisions employing Logical Decision Trees thus saving time and money. The book focuses on decision-making and resource allocation across and between the manufacturing, product design and logistical functions. It demonstrates key results for each sector with diverse real-world case studies drawn primarily from EU projects. Theory is accompanied by relevant analysis techniques, with a progressional approach building from simple theory to complex and dynamic decisions with multiple data points, including big data and lot of data. Binary Decision Diagrams are presented as the operating approach for evaluating large Logical Decision Trees, helping readers identify Boolean equations for quantitative analysis of multifaceted problem sets. 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. The final objective is to optimize dynamic decisions with original approaches employing useful tools, including Big Data analysis. Extensive annexes provide useful supplementary information for readers to follow methods contained in the book.

modern mushroom growing 2020 harvesting (Hardcover): M Van Den Munckhof-Vedder, P J C Vedder modern mushroom growing 2020 harvesting (Hardcover)
M Van Den Munckhof-Vedder, P J C Vedder
R2,837 Discovery Miles 28 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Raise Your Credit Score - Proven Strategies to Repair Your Credit Score, Increase Your Credit Score, Overcome Credit... How to Raise Your Credit Score - Proven Strategies to Repair Your Credit Score, Increase Your Credit Score, Overcome Credit Card Debt and Increase Your Credit Limit Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Phil Wall
R601 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Models and Methods for Interval-Valued Cooperative Games in Economic Management (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Deng-Feng LI Models and Methods for Interval-Valued Cooperative Games in Economic Management (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Deng-Feng LI
R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book proposes several commonly used interval-valued solution concepts of interval-valued cooperative games with transferable utility. It thoroughly investigates these solutions, thereby establishing the properties, models, methods, and applications. The first chapter proposes the interval-valued least square solutions and quadratic programming models, methods, and properties. Next, the satisfactory-degree-based non-linear programming models for computing interval-valued cores and corresponding bisection algorithm are explained. Finally, the book explores several simplification methods of interval-valued solutions: the interval-valued equal division and equal surplus division values; the interval-valued Shapley, egalitarian Shapley, and discounted Shapley values; the interval-valued solidarity and generalized solidarity values; and the interval-valued Banzhaf value. This book is designed for individuals from different fields and disciplines, such as decision science, game theory, management science, operations research, fuzzy sets or fuzzy mathematics, applied mathematics, industrial engineering, finance, applied economics, expert system, and social economy as well as artificial intelligence. Moreover, it is suitable for teachers, postgraduates, and researchers from different disciplines: decision analysis, management, operations research, fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy system analysis, applied mathematics, systems engineering, project management, supply chain management, industrial engineering, applied economics, and hydrology and water resources.

Critical Thinking - Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life (Paperback, Fourth Edition): Richard. Paul, Linda... Critical Thinking - Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life (Paperback, Fourth Edition)
Richard. Paul, Linda Elder
R2,987 R1,914 Discovery Miles 19 140 Save R1,073 (36%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Current edition description Written by two of the leading experts in critical thinking, this book focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary. It provides readerse with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions - thinking, feeling, motivation - influence and are influenced by one another. This book fosters the development of fair-minded critical thinking. Features the intellectual standards: clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness; The importance of good questioning; and intellectual tools to read for deep and lasting comprehension, and to write in ways that show clarity of reasonability of thought. For all that want to improve their critical thinking skills to apply to their job or life. The text features: Think for Yourself activities - throughout each chapter. (Ex. pp 29, 127). ~Help students take ownership of basic concepts as they learn them. Practical and learnable format. ~Simplifies complex ideas to make learning easier for students. Focus on thinking across the disciplines. (Ex. pp 119-120). ~Helps students to think within the various disciplines, rather than memorizing facts. Students are taught to learn to think like an historian, like a scientist, like a psychologist, etc. Critical thinking focus - When students internalize intellectual standards - such as clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness - they use them on a daily basis to upgrade their thinking, and to assess the thinking of others. (Ex. 12, 152). ~Gives students intellectual standards they can use in every dimension of their thinking. Features intellectual tools to read for deep and lasting comprehension, and to write in ways that show clarity of reasonability of thought. (Ex. 133). ~Teaches students to read closely and write substantively. Good questions are the key to good thinking - Thinkers who know how to ask relevant questions in context are better able to think their way through complex issues. (Ex. pp 83, 87, 93). ~Teaches students to ask the questions the best thinkers ask. Website - www.criticalthinking.org. ~Links students to the world's largest and most prestigious critical thinking website and provides forums for student and faculty discussions. International approach - with translations into German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Malay. ~Provides students with the opportunity to read portions of the text in their native language. "This book is well-written, lucid and contains abundant examples and applications that not only enliven the subject matter but present relevant contexts for building understanding and advanced critical thinking. In addition, it is faithful to the complexity and work required to improve one's thinking. It does not soft-pedal the challenge but actually throws down the gauntlet to the worthy Reader to pick it up." --Stephen J. Knopp, Ph.D., Ohio University "This concise version is a more comprehensive and robust textbook. Many Critical Thinking books cover thinking from a narrow angle, but Paul and Elder offer a model of critical thinking that can be applied not only to academic disciplines but also to life in general." --Connie Wolfe, Surry Community College

Conflict Resolution Using the Graph Model: Strategic Interactions in Competition and Cooperation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... Conflict Resolution Using the Graph Model: Strategic Interactions in Competition and Cooperation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Haiyan Xu, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour, Liping Fang
R6,212 Discovery Miles 62 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This cutting-edge book presents the theory and practice of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), which is used for strategically investigating disputes in any field to enable informed decision making. It clearly explains how GMCR can determine what is the best a particular decision maker (DM) can independently achieve in dynamic interaction with others. Moves and counter-moves follow various stability definitions reflecting human behavior under conflict. The book defines a wide range of preference structures to represent a DM's comparisons of states or scenarios: equally preferred, more or less preferred; unknown; degrees of strength of preference; and hybrid. It vividly describes how GMCR can ascertain whether a DM can fare even better by cooperating with others in a coalition. The book portrays how a conflict can evolve from the status quo to a desirable resolution, and provides a universal design for a decision support system to implement the innovative decision technologies using the matrix formulation of GMCR. Further, it illustrates the key ideas using real-world conflicts and supplies problems at the end of each chapter. As such, this highly instructive book benefits teachers, mentors, students and practitioners in any area where conflict arises.

Reduction of the Pareto Set - An Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Vladimir D. Noghin Reduction of the Pareto Set - An Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Vladimir D. Noghin
R3,841 R3,559 Discovery Miles 35 590 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on the issues of decision-making with several numerical criteria. It introduces an original general approach to solving multicriteria problems given quantitative information about the preference relation of a decision-maker. It considers the problems with crisp as well as fuzzy preference relations, accepting the four axioms of "reasonable choice". Further, it defines the notion of an information quantum about the preference relation of a decision-maker and studies the reduction of the Pareto set using a finite collection of information quanta, demonstrating that the original approach yields a good approximation for the set of nondominated alternatives in a multicriteria problem. Lastly, it analyzes a possible combination of the axiomatic approach with other well-known methods. Intended for a wide range of professionals involved in solving multicriteria problems, including researchers, design engineers, product engineers, developers and analysts, the book is also a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, economics, and engineering.

Disrupt Yourself - Choosing Courage Over Comfort, On Purpose (Hardcover): Morris Morrison Disrupt Yourself - Choosing Courage Over Comfort, On Purpose (Hardcover)
Morris Morrison
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality - Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame (Hardcover): Barbara H Harthorn, Laury Oaks Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality - Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame (Hardcover)
Barbara H Harthorn, Laury Oaks
R1,958 Discovery Miles 19 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk. It is followed by an overview on the anthropology of harm reduction that outlines an innovative framework for culturally informed risk analysis. The remaining nine chapters are organized into three sections, The Cultivation of Fear, Perceptions of Health, Safety, and Hazard: Risk Makers and Risk Takers, and Regulating Risk and the Public's Health. The book aims to address a set of questions of theoretical and practical importance to anthropologists, sociologists, public health scholars and professionals, and public policy advocates, among others. These questions include: How do individuals conceptualize and respond to risk? Can risk be a tool of empowerment for individuals and communities who define themselves as at-risk? How has risk figured recently in the production of health inequality? Has the social contract to provide care in its broadest sense expanded or contracted around issues of risk? Are risk and the imperative to adhere to risk warnings used by experts as a means of social control?

The volume's contributors, medical anthropologists and sociologists, provide rich, grounded ethnographic case material on the processes at work in everyday social life around the globe, as individuals and groups struggle to make saense of the health risks and inequities in their lives and communities. Authors address an array of urgent health concerns, ranging from food safety to environment, new technologies to infectious disease, in such contrasting locales as the US, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and North Africa, and across diverse ethnicities and social classes.

The Blue Square Method - The Mindset and Best-Practices of Top Fee-For-Service Professionals (Hardcover): Duncan Macpherson,... The Blue Square Method - The Mindset and Best-Practices of Top Fee-For-Service Professionals (Hardcover)
Duncan Macpherson, Chris Jeppesen
R1,227 R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Save R193 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
School Leadership - Case Studies Solving School Problems (Paperback, Second Edition): Benjamin Piltch, Terrence Quinn School Leadership - Case Studies Solving School Problems (Paperback, Second Edition)
Benjamin Piltch, Terrence Quinn
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process. How does the school administrator balance all the needs of the various groups and still remain true to the ultimate, though most powerless constituency: the students? Through case studies and anecdotes based on real-life experiences, the authors share the ups and downs of the educational world, seeking to find the balance that is most effective in ensuring success. School Leadership: Case Studies Solving School Problems details decision making and actions taken that dramatically affect the success of students and schools as well as school systems. This second edition continues and improves on the first edition with a series of new and timely school leadership case studies that require the reader to reflect on the variety of issues that cross the principal's desk every day. The reader will find the case studies and anecdotes highly absorbing. They are so real, fraught with complexity, and will require the reader to use a sophisticated decision-making process.

31 Decisions That Make A Woman Of Value - Essential Values of a Great Woman (Hardcover): Abraham Great 31 Decisions That Make A Woman Of Value - Essential Values of a Great Woman (Hardcover)
Abraham Great
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perceived Safety - A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Martina Raue, Bernhard Streicher, Eva Lermer Perceived Safety - A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Martina Raue, Bernhard Streicher, Eva Lermer
R3,611 Discovery Miles 36 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety. It discusses the concept of safety from engineering, philosophy, and psychology angles, and considers various definitions of safety and its relationship to risk. Examining the categorization of safety and the measurement of risk, risk cultures, basic human needs and decision-making under uncertainty, the contributions demonstrate the practical implications and applications in areas such as health behavior, aviation and sports. Topics covered include: What is "safety" and is there "optimal safety" in engineering? Philosophical perspectives on safety and risk Psychological perspectives on perceived safety: social factors of feeling safe Psychological perspectives on perceived safety: zero-risk bias, feelings & learned carelessness Perception of aviation safety Intended for both practitioners and academic researchers, this book appeals to anyone interested in decision-making and the perception and establishment of safety.

Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era - How Angel Investors, VCs, and Entrepreneurs Prosper in an Age of Unprecedented Innovation... Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era - How Angel Investors, VCs, and Entrepreneurs Prosper in an Age of Unprecedented Innovation (Hardcover)
Matthew C. Le Merle, Alison Davis
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Move! - From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Hardcover): Dallas Burnett Move! - From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Hardcover)
Dallas Burnett
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Your Path to a Fulfilling Life - Introduction to Making Your Wishes Come True (Hardcover): Margaret A Herrick, Barbara J... Your Path to a Fulfilling Life - Introduction to Making Your Wishes Come True (Hardcover)
Margaret A Herrick, Barbara J Dickinson
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Health and Sexuality Education in Schools - The Process of Social Change (Hardcover): Steven Ridini Health and Sexuality Education in Schools - The Process of Social Change (Hardcover)
Steven Ridini
R2,777 Discovery Miles 27 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recently there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in Massachusetts public schools. Advocates of school-based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their position. They cite national and statewide statistics about adolescent sexual activity and unsafe sexual practice as a basis for providing students with the facts and the skills to make decisions to prevent pregnancy and the transmission of sexually-transmitted diseases. Opponents often speak about the parents' role in educating their sons and daughters and object to public school instruction that regards homosexuality and safe sex as acceptable choices.

In the literature, many models of community organization focus on the decision-making structure within the community, rather than on the process of social change. Therefore, we often know who makes community decisions, without knowing much about how and why these decisions are made. In this study the process of social change is explored by conducting comparative case studies of two Massachusetts communities.

Personal Motivation - A Model for Decision Making (Hardcover, New): Robert P. Cavalier Personal Motivation - A Model for Decision Making (Hardcover, New)
Robert P. Cavalier
R2,215 Discovery Miles 22 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A new text for positive psychology, this book places the self as the decision maker at the center of the motivational process. "Personal Motivation" represents a new approach for student and scholar to consider motivation theory, self theory, and decision theory. It supports current thinking, which sees the self as possessing power for growth and change. Challenging traditional motivation and personality theories, it puts personality within the context of a new motivation model. It also challenges current thinking by distinguishing between choosing and deciding, and by describing the various characteristics of decision making as uniquely human.

The self is reciprocally influenced by three motivational systems and is formed by the motivational process itself. A triarchic theory of motivation is proposed consisting of interdependent systems: formative, operational, and thematic. This book places the study of psychology back in the arena of life by developing a model of motivation and decision making immediately relevant to personal experience.

Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (Paperback): Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (Paperback)
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
R295 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The completely updated, final edition of the global bestseller - one of the most influential books of the 21st century 'Few books can be said to have changed the world, but Nudge did. The Final Edition is marvellous: funny, useful, and wise' Daniel Kahneman Nudge has transformed the way individuals, companies and governments look at the world - and in the process has become one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. This completely updated edition offers a wealth of new insights for fans and newcomers alike - about COVID-19, diet, personal finance, retirement savings, medical care, organ donation, and climate change. Every day we make decisions: about the things we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make and the time we spend; about our health and that of the planet. Unfortunately, we often choose badly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions that make us poorer, less healthy and less happy. And, as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein show, no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way. But by knowing how people think, we can make it easier for them to choose what is best for themselves, for their families and for society. With brilliant insight and wonderful levity, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how best to nudge us in the right directions, without ever restricting our freedom of choice.

Collective Bargaining Preparation Essentials - The Handbook (Second Edition) (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Hugh J Finlayson Collective Bargaining Preparation Essentials - The Handbook (Second Edition) (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Hugh J Finlayson
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Streets Out, GOD and Education In - That's How We Do It, That's How We Win! (Hardcover): Asondra Starn'air Streets Out, GOD and Education In - That's How We Do It, That's How We Win! (Hardcover)
Asondra Starn'air
R1,105 R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Save R160 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hesitant Fuzzy Decision Making Methodologies and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Huchang Liao, Zeshui Xu Hesitant Fuzzy Decision Making Methodologies and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Huchang Liao, Zeshui Xu
R3,417 Discovery Miles 34 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest research on hesitant fuzzy decision-making theory. It includes six parts: the hesitant fuzzy set and its extensions, novel hesitant fuzzy measures, hesitant fuzzy hybrid weighted aggregation operators, hesitant fuzzy multiple-criteria decision-making with incomplete weights, hesitant fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making with complete weights information, and the hesitant fuzzy preference relation based decision-making theory. These methodologies are implemented in various fields such as decision-making, medical diagnosis, cluster analysis, service quality management, e-learning management and environmental management. A valuable resource for engineers, technicians, and researchers in the fields of fuzzy mathematics, operations research, information science, management science and engineering, it can also be used as a textbook for postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.

Actuarial Fairy Tales - Statistically Significant Stories (Hardcover): John Lee Actuarial Fairy Tales - Statistically Significant Stories (Hardcover)
John Lee
R500 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Energize to Impact - Reframe Leadership for Sustainable Success (Hardcover): Charles S Dormer Energize to Impact - Reframe Leadership for Sustainable Success (Hardcover)
Charles S Dormer
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Probabilistic Composition of Preferences, Theory and Applications (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Annibal Parracho Sant'Anna Probabilistic Composition of Preferences, Theory and Applications (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Annibal Parracho Sant'Anna
R3,726 R3,444 Discovery Miles 34 440 Save R282 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Putting forward a unified presentation of the features and possible applications of probabilistic preferences composition, and serving as a methodology for decisions employing multiple criteria, this book maximizes reader insights into the evaluation in probabilistic terms and the development of composition approaches that do not depend on assigning weights to the criteria. With key applications in important areas of management such as failure modes, effects analysis and productivity analysis - together with explanations about the application of the concepts involved -this book makes available numerical examples of probabilistic transformation development and probabilistic composition. Useful not only as a reference source for researchers, but also in teaching classes of graduate courses in Production Engineering and Management Science, the key themes of the book will be of especial interest to researchers in the field of Operational Research.

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