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Economics Aspects and Social Impact of Wind Energy: Determining the Cost of Wind Electricity and the Relative Share of Wind Energy Consumption
This chapter presents some indicators that can be used to evaluate the feasibility of investments in wind energy projects from different...
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General Approaches to Decision-Making
Today, in many different areas, decision-making is required at various management levels—operational, tactical, strategic, etc. The primary purpose...
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Introduction
This is the introductory chapter of the book. General aspects related to Location Science are reviewed. The role that uncertainty plays in the field...
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Facility Location with Routing Decisions
This chapter focuses on integrating location and routing decisions. These are the problems that have been extensively studied in deterministic...
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Distributionally Robust Facility Location
This chapter discusses distributional robust optimization (DRO) models and techniques for facility location problems. The classical capacitated...
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Bilevel Recycling Facility Location
This chapter presents an application of distributional robust facility location to a resource recovery planning problem under a public-private...
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Optimization Under Uncertainty
This chapter discusses several aspects of relevance in optimization under uncertainty. Different paradigms are reviewed, such as Robust Optimization,...
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Location-Inventory Problems
In this chapter, inventory and facility location decisions are intertwined. Different problems, models, and algorithms are discussed. The impact of...
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Discrete Facility Location Problems
This chapter reviews several well-known classes of facility location problems. These include problems with direct allocation (a demand node is served...
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Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Ingredients for Modeling
This chapter discusses several aspects of relevance when embedding uncertainty in optimization models aiming at supporting decision-making. These...
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Facility Location with Chance Constraints
This chapter focuses on facility location problems with chance constraints. The analysis starts with chance-constrained capacitated fixed-charge...
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Multi-criteria Decision-Making, Evolution, and Characteristics
This chapter deals with the commencement, history, and evolution of multi-criteria decision-making process. It gives the reader a bird’s-eye glance...
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The Initial Decision Matrix and Its Relation with Modelling a Scenario
This chapter is mainly devoted to a critical task: modelling a scenario. It addresses two main aspects:...
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The SIMUS Method
This chapter aims at explaining the SIMUS method, trying to show without formulas how it works. Its purpose is to illustrate the DM about its...
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Best Practices: Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis in MCDM
Considering the questions posed by hundreds of practitioners in a scientific forum such as Research Gate (RG) over several years, it appears that...
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The Decision-Maker, a Vital Component of the Decision-Making Process
Decisions are taken by human beings. It does not matter how many different methods are available for this activity and how accurate they seem to be;...
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Some Complex and Uncommon Cases Solved by SIMUS
This chapter examines some uncommon and complex scenarios that illustrate the ability of LP and SIMUS to solve them. Normally, they are related to...
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Support and Guidance to Practitioners by Simulation of Questions Formulated by Readers and Detailed Answers and Examples
This chapter incorporates innovation in science and technical books, at least in the MCDM area, since it simulates readers addressing the author with...
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Sensitivity Analysis by SIMUS: The IOSA Procedure
This chapter addresses a fundamental subject: sensitivity analysis. It is not only a checking procedure but also a tool, which allows the DM to...
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Group Decision-Making Case Study: Highway Construction
This chapter deals with a very important issue. Group Decision-Making, where the decisions are not taken by a sole DM but by a group of DMs. This is...