TY - BOOK AU - Ventre,Aldo G.S. AU - Maturo,Antonio AU - Hošková-Mayerová,Šárka AU - Kacprzyk,Janusz ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Multicriteria and Multiagent Decision Making with Applications to Economics and Social Sciences T2 - Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, SN - 9783642356353 AV - Q342 U1 - 006.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Engineering KW - Operations research KW - Decision making KW - Political science KW - Computational intelligence KW - Computational Intelligence KW - Operation Research/Decision Theory KW - Political Science N1 - From the Contents: Development Policies in China: an Analysis of the Territorial Imbalances -- The Generalized Gini Welfare Function in the Framework of Symmetric Choquet Integration -- Credit Crunch in the Euro Area: a Coopetitive Solution -- Pairwise Comparison Matrices over Abelian Linearly Ordered Groups: a Consistency Measure and Weights for the Alternatives N2 - The book provides a comprehensive and timely report on the topic of decision making and decision analysis in economics and the social sciences. The various contributions included in the book, selected using a peer review process, present important studies and research conducted in various countries around the globe. The majority of these studies are concerned with the analysis, modeling and formalization of the behavior of groups or committees that are in charge of making decisions of social and economic importance. Decisions in these contexts have to meet precise coherence standards and achieve a significant degree of sharing, consensus and acceptance, even in uncertain and fuzzy environments. This necessitates the confluence of several research fields, such as foundations of social choice and decision making, mathematics, complexity, psychology, sociology and economics. A large spectrum of problems that may be encountered during decision making and decision analysis in the areas of economics and the social sciences, together with a broad range of tools and techniques that may be used to solve those problems, are presented in detail in this book, making it an ideal reference work for all those interested in analyzing and implementing mathematical tools for application to relevant issues involving the economy and society UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35635-3 ER -