Preface

*Advances in Decision Making* synthesizes the analytical principles with the business practice of decision making. Specifically, it provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of decision-making. It is complementary to other sub-disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, decision and risk analysis, and more. The chapters introduce and demonstrate decision-making theory using practical case studies. Discussions of the theory of decision-making are accompanied by relevant analysis techniques, progressing from simple theory to complex and dynamic decisions with multiple data points. Computational techniques, dynamic analysis, probabilistic methods, and mathematical optimization techniques are expertly blended to support the analysis of multi-criteria decision-making problems with defined constraints and requirements. The algorithms, approaches, and methods presented in each chapter can be applied to problems of all sizes. This book is useful for graduate students, researchers, professionals, engineers, and other interested readers.

#### **Fausto Pedro García Márquez**

Ingenium Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
