QUANTITATIVE DECISION METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT

Or Applications in Sports Scheduling and Management

OR methods have been successfully applied in the evaluation of team performance. Team managers, players, fans, and journalists are often eager to know how close a team is of classification. Probabilistic and exact methods are used to tackle this question. Timetabling is the major OR application in sports. Sport leagues and teams need schedules satisfying different types of constraints and optim...

Risk management in urban tunnels using methods of game theory and multi-criteria decision-making

In general, underground spaces are associated with high risks because of their high uncertainty in geotechnical environments. Since most accidents and incidents in these structures are often associated with uncertainty, the development of risk analysis and management methods and prevention of accidents are essential. A deeper recognition of the factors affecting the implementation process can p...

Methods and Applications of Quantitative Linguistics

Preface The contributions to this volume are selected and peer-reviewed papers on the basis of talks which were delivered on the QUALICO 2012 was, as usual, open to original papers without any limitations as to thematic or methodological aspects. Therefore, a large variety of topics has been addressed and numerous fields of linguistics and related fields have been touched. A number of contribut...

Statistical Decision Theory: Concepts, Methods and Applications

Multicriterion Decision Aid: Methods and Applications

Traditionally, at least until recently, OR has mainly been based on models which postulate the existence of a unique objective (single-criterion) function. It was thus assumed implicitly that in order to help organizations improve their decision-making, there was a general rule, or objective function, which stood out in everybody’s eyes to indicate the proper direction in which a given system h...