Handbook on Decision Making Vol 1: Techniques and Applications
Decision making is a multi-faceted and challenging, yet important task. A decision maker normally has to take into consideration a number of alternatives, which often conflict with one another, before reaching a good decision. To cope with the challenges
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Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Volume 4 Editors-in-Chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw Poland E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia Adelaide Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia 5095 Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol. 1. Christine L. Mumford and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Computational Intelligence: Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence, 2009 ISBN 978-3-642-01798-8 Vol. 2. Yuehui Chen and Ajith Abraham Tree-Structure Based Hybrid Computational Intelligence, 2009 ISBN 978-3-642-04738-1 Vol. 3. Anthony Finn and Steve Scheding Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-10703-0 Vol. 4. Lakhmi C. Jain and Chee Peng Lim (Eds.) Handbook on Decision Making: Techniques and Applications, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-13638-2
Lakhmi C. Jain and Chee Peng Lim (Eds.)
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Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia School of Electrical & Information Engineering KES Centre 5095 Adelaide South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Chee Peng Lim University of Science Malaysia School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering Campus 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang Malaysia E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-13638-2
e-ISBN 978-3-642-13639-9
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-13639-9 Intelligent Systems Reference Library
ISSN 1868-4394
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Preface
Decision making arises when we wish to select the best possible course of action from a set of alternatives. With advancements of the digital technologies, it is easy, and almost instantaneous, to gather a large volume of information and/or data pertaining to a problem that we want to solve. For instance, the world-wideweb is perhaps the primary source of information and/or data that we often t
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