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Operational Research in Agriculture and Tourism

7th International Symposium and 29th National Conference on Operational Research, Chania, Greece, June 2018

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Editors:
  1. Evangelia Krassadaki

    1. School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

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  2. George Baourakis

    1. Department of Business Economics & Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece

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  3. Constantin Zopounidis

    1. School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

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  4. Nikolaos Matsatsinis

    1. School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

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  • Presents a range of recent operational research techniques for agriculture and tourism management
  • Covers applications to both for the primary and tertiary sectors
  • Focuses on decision support systems for cooperative management

Part of the book series: Cooperative Management (COMA)

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Agricultural Cooperatives and Acceptance of Technological Innovation

    • Vartan Kesiz Abnousi, Konstantinos Karantemiris, Andreas G. Doulis
    Pages 1-25

  3. Virtual Incubators and Online Business Tools for Agro-Food SMEs

    • Christina Diakaki, Nikoleta Banani, Evangelos Grigoroudis
    Pages 27-48

  4. Design of a Sentiment Lexicon for the Greek Food and Beverage Sector

    • Anastasios Liapakis, Theodore Tsiligiridis, Constantine Yialouris
    Pages 49-66

  5. Firms’ Profitability in the Period of Crisis: Evidence from Greek Food and Beverage Listed Firms in the Athens Stock Exchange

    • Konstantina Panagiotakopoulou, Petros Kalantonis, Panagiotis Kaldis
    Pages 67-82

  6. Fiscal Multipliers Under Extreme Uncertainty: Case of Greek Tourism Economy

    • Georgios Alexopoulos, Alexandros Apostolakis, Constantin Zopounidis, Alexandros Garefalakis, Marianna Eskantar
    Pages 83-105

  7. Forecasting Tourism Demand in Europe

    • Dimitrios I. Vortelinos, Konstantinos Gkillas, Christos Floros, Lavrentios Vasiliadis
    Pages 107-129

  8. The Role of Modern Ports and Marine Protected Areas in Eastmed’s Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Greece

    • Basil Tselentis, Theodoros Pelagidis, Sotirios Manologlou
    Pages 131-143

  9. A Hybrid Firefly Algorithm Based on Coordinates for the Prize-Collecting Vehicle Routing Problem

    • Manousos Rigakis, Dimitra Trachanatzi, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis
    Pages 145-167

  10. Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: An Updated Literature Review

    • Syrine Jemaa, Ahmed Alayidi, Athanasios Migdalas, George Baourakis, Periklis Drakos
    Pages 169-196

  11. A Similarity Hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm for the Orienteering Problem

    • Eleftherios Tsakirakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis
    Pages 197-218
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About this book

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management. It covers both the primary sector of agriculture and agricultural economics, and the tertiary sector of the tourism industry. Findings and lessons learned from these innovations can be readily applied to various other contexts. The book chiefly focuses on cooperative management issues, and on developing solutions to provide decision support in multi-criteria scenarios.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

    Evangelia Krassadaki, Constantin Zopounidis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

  • Department of Business Economics & Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece

    George Baourakis

About the editors

Evangelia Krassadaki received her PhD and MSc in Multi-criteria Analysis from the Technical University of Crete and Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus. She started her professional career in the Technical University of Crete, in 1985, while since 1990, she is a teaching assistant at the School of Production Engineering and Management. She is, also, experienced in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, courses such as Decision Support Systems, Operations Research, and Consumer Behavior - Market Research. She has been awarded for teaching by the Technical University of Crete in 2017. She is a reviewer of scientific publications in the areas of Operations Research – Management – Engineering education, participates in scientific and organizing committees of conferences, manages research projects, and supervises engineering students’ Diploma Thesis, while in the past she was the editorial assistant of the journal ‘ORIJ -Operational Research. An International Journal’. Her interests include multi-criteria analysis, decision support systems, operations research, market research, management science and engineering education. She is an author of over 30 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes.



George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM–MAICh since June 2012. He has more than two decades’ experience in the management and coordination of educational and research activities, including coordination of the Business Economics and Management Program of CIHEAM- MAICh since 1989, the organization of international seminars and training courses and the scientific, economic and administrative management of research projects. He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG Tempus, Phare, Life, Erasmus + etc), international and national-regionalresearch projects. He is an Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School, while he has also been appointed Distinguished Research Fellow in Food Marketing-Management at several universities. Dr Baourakis has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.

Constantin Zopounidis is a Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, Distinguished Research Professor in Audencia Business School, France, and Senior Academician of both Royal Academy of Doctors and Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain. He is the Editor-in-Chief in The International Journal of Multicriteria DecisionMaking (Inderscience), The International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Inderscience) and Co-Editor-in-Chief in International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance (Inderscience), International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (Inderscience), and the European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier). In 2013, he received the Edgeworth-Pareto Prestigious Award from the International Society of Multicriteria Decision Making. He has edited and authored 100 books in international publishers and more than 500 research papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research, and management science. 

Nikolaos Matsatsinis is Professor of Information and Decision Support Systems at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is President of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS). He is Director of Decision Support Systems Lab,Postgraduate Program of School of the Production Engineering & Management, and Inter-University Postgraduate Program in ‘Systems Engineering’ with Hellenic Military Academy. He received his PhD in Intelligent Multicriteria Decision Support Systems for Marketing Decisions from Technical University of Crete. He has contributed as project coordinator on over of fifty national and international projects. He is Editor in Chief of the Operational Research: An International Journal (Impact Factor: 1.485) and International Journal of Decision Support Systems, and member of the international advisory board of three other scientific journals. He is the author or co-author of twenty-five books and over of one hundred and ten articles in international scientific journals and books. He has organized and participated in the organization of over of eighty scientific conferences and he has over of two hundred presentations in international and national scientific conferences. Prof. Matsatsinis is member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); IFORMS, EURO, HELORS, MCDM, EWG on Multicriteria Decision Aid; EWG on Decision Support Systems, etc.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operational Research in Agriculture and Tourism

  • Book Subtitle: 7th International Symposium and 29th National Conference on Operational Research, Chania, Greece, June 2018

  • Editors: Evangelia Krassadaki, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

  • Series Title: Cooperative Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38766-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38765-5Published: 06 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38768-6Published: 06 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38766-2Published: 05 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2364-401X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4028

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Research, Management Science, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Agricultural Economics, Tourism Management

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