Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics, and Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Social Networks and Social Information Sharing Using Fuzzy Methods

   • Ronald R. Yager

   Pages 1-1

3. Using Analytical Methods in Business Continuity Planning

   • Holmes E. Miller, Kurt J. Engemann

   Pages 2-12

4. Using Neural Networks to Model Sovereign Credit Ratings: Application to the European Union

   • Raúl León-Soriano, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres

   Pages 13-23

5. Measuring Errors with the OWA Operator

   • José M. Merigó

   Pages 24-33

6. Solvency Capital Estimation and Risk Measures

   • Antoni Ferri, Montserrat Guillén, Lluís Bermúdez

   Pages 34-43

7. Decision Making of Customer Loyalty Programs to Maintain Consumer Constancy

   • Aras Keropyan, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente

   Pages 44-53

8. User and Usage Constraints in Information Systems Development – Application to University: A Case Study of Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria

   • Moses A. Akanbi, Amos A. David

   Pages 54-61

9. Online Business Registration and Congolese Entrepreneurs in Cape Town

   • Alain M. Momo, Wilfred I. Ukpere

   Pages 62-77

10. The Algorithm of Optimal Polynomial Extrapolation of Random Processes

    • Igor P. Atamanyuk, Volodymyr Y. Kondratenko, Oleksiy V. Kozlov, Yuriy P. Kondratenko

    Pages 78-87

11. An Analytic Framework for Assessing Automobile Sales Loss from Recalls: A Toyota Case Study

    • Heechang Shin, Robert Richardson, Oredola Soluade

    Pages 88-97

12. A Method for Uncertain Sales Forecast by Using Triangular Fuzzy Numbers

    • Salvador Linares-Mustarós, José M. Merigó, Joan Carles Ferrer-Comalat

    Pages 98-113

13. A Metaheuristic Approach for Supply Chain Network Design Problems

    • Uday Venkatadri, Soumen Bose, Amir Azaron

    Pages 114-122

14. Random Forests for Uplift Modeling: An Insurance Customer Retention Case

    • Leo Guelman, Montserrat Guillén, Ana M. Pérez-Marín

    Pages 123-133

15. Age Diversity in the Boardroom: Measures and Implications

    • Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres

    Pages 134-143

16. Hierarchical Structure of Variables in Export Agribusiness: The Case of Michoacan

    • Joel Bonales Valencia, Odette Virginia Delfín Ortega

    Pages 144-150

17. Division of Labour and Outsourcing: Mutually Exclusive Concepts?

    • Wilfred I. Ukpere, Mohammed S. Bayat

    Pages 151-165

18. OWA Operators in the Assignment Process: The Case of the Hungarian Algorithm

    • Emili Vizuete Luciano, José M. Merigó, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Sefa Boria Reverté

    Pages 166-177

19. Mathematic Modeling of Reactor’s Temperature Mode of Multiloop Pyrolysis Plant

    • Yuriy P. Kondratenko, Oleksiy V. Kozlov

    Pages 178-187

20. Step Size Bounds for a Class of Multiderivative Explicit Runge–Kutta Methods

    • Moses A. Akanbi, Solomon A. Okunuga, Adetokunbo B. Sofoluwe

    Pages 188-197

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics, and Management, MS 2012, held in New Rochelle, NY, USA, in May/June 2012. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and Iona College. The 27 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. In addition to these papers a summary of the plenary presentation given by Ronald R. Yager is also included. The book mainly focuses on the field of intelligent systems and its application to economics and business administration. Some papers have a stronger orientation towards modeling and simulation in these fields.

• business applications
• decision support systems
• heuristics
• intelligent systems
• modeling
• simulation

• Hagan School of Business, Iona College, New Rochelle, USA

  Kurt J. Engemann

• Department of Business Administration, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, José M. Merigó

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