Meet the editor

Fausto (https://blog.uclm.es/faustopedrogarcia/) works at UCLM as a Full Professor (accredited as Full Professor from 2013), Spain, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, UK, Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute, and he has been a Senior Manager in Accenture (2013-2014). He obtained his European PhD with a maximum distinction. He has been awarded: Advancement Prize for Management Sci-ence and

Engineering Management Nominated Prize (2018), First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017); Runner (2015), Advancement (2013) and Silver (2012) by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM); Best Paper Award in the international journal of Renewable Energy (Impact Factor 3.5) (2015). He has published more than 150 papers (65 % ISI, 30% JCR and 92% internationals), some recognized as: "Renewable Energy" (as "Best Paper 2014"); "ICMSEM" (as "excellent"), "Int. J. of Automation and Computing" and "IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit" (most downloaded), etc. He is the author and editor of 25 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, IntechOpen, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega, etc), and 5 patents. He is the editor of 5 international journals and a committee member of more than 40 international conferences. He has been Principal Investigator in 4 European projects, 5 National projects, and more than 150 projects for universities, companies, etc. His main interest are: maintenance management, renewable energy, transport, advanced analytics, data science. He is the Director of www.ingeniumgroup.eu.

Contents

by Shaoqiong Zhao

and Hani Mahdi

and Festus O. Oderanti

and Bilal Eneizan

Type of Input Data

The Role of Reviews in Decision-Making

Decision-Making in Fuzzy Environment: A Survey by Hossam Kamal El-Din, Hossam E. Abd El Munim

by Sulaiman Abdulaziz Alfadhel, Shaofeng Liu

Business and Information System Alignment Theories Built on eGovernment Service Practice: An Holistic Literature Review

How Does Socio-Technical Approach Influence Sustainability? Considering the Roles of Decision Making Environment by Hadi AL-Abrrow, Alhamzah Alnoor, Hasan Abdullah

Decision-Making Method Taking into Account the Characteristics of Third-Party Logistics, the Requirements of Managers, and the

Inventory Policies for Deteriorating Items with Maximum Lifetime under Downstream Partial Trade Credits to Credit-Risk Customers

by Nirmal Kumar Duari, Sorforaj Nowaj and Jobin George Varghese

A Framework for Detecting the Proper Multi-Criteria

Decision Rule Induction Based on the Graph Theory

by Patricija Bajec and Danijela Tuljak-Suban

by Izabela Kutschenreiter-Praszkiewicz

by Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

Preface III

Chapter 1 1

Chapter 2 15

Chapter 3 33

Chapter 4 55

Chapter 5 75

Chapter 6 91

Chapter 7 107
