Meet the editor

Fausto Pedro García Márquez is a full professor at the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM), Spain. He is also an honorary senior research fellow at Birmingham University, United Kingdom, and a lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute. During 2013–2014, he was a senior manager at Accenture. He obtained his European Ph.D. with a maximum distinction. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including prizes from the

International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICM-SEM). He has published more than 170 papers in scientific journals and authored 40 books, 90 book chapters, and 6 patents. He is the editor of five international journals and a committee member for more than sixty conferences. He has been the Principal Investigator for more than 150 national and international projects. His main interests are artificial intelligence, maintenance, management, renewable energy, transport, advanced analytics, and data science.

Contents

*by Fausto Pedro García Márquez*

*by Bernard Cadet*

*and Tayeb Bensattalah*

*by Nivetha Martin*

*by Xiaona Xia*

of Material in Sugar Industry

with Different Normalization Techniques

Behaviors Based on Eclat Framework

Uncertainty *by Sangdo Choi*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 19**

**Chapter 4 33**

**Chapter 5 45**

**Chapter 6 69**

**Chapter 7 79**

**Chapter 8 101**

Decision Making in the Context of Natural Disasters Based on a Geographic

Information System and the Internet of Things (IoT)

*by Aissa Bensattalah, Rachid Chalal, Tahar Hassaine Daouadji* 

Comparison of Cross-Entropy Based MCDM Approach for Selection

*by Syed Abou Iltaf Hussain, Himanshu Chandra and Uttam Kumar Mandal*

Plithogenic SWARA-TOPSIS Decision Making on Food Processing Methods

Innovation Methodologies to Activate Inclusive Growth in the Organization

Improved Probabilistic Frequent Itemset Analysis Strategy of Learning

*by Garazi Carranza Ruiz de Loizaga and Begoña Sanchez Gonzalez*

Introductory Chapter: Introduction to Advances in Decision-Making

Cognitive Decision-Making in Dynamic Systems: When the Objectivity (of the Processing) Does Not Guarantee the Validity (of the Choice of Action)

Single-Period Capacity and Demand Allocation Decision Making under
