EDITORIAL
Journal Title: Operations Research and Decisions - Year 2014, Vol 24, Issue 4
Abstract
This special issue of the Operations Research and Decisions is dedicated to the Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory SING 10, an international meeting that started as a reference point for game theorists mainly from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, but now includes scholars from all over the world that each year congregate in a European city.
Authors and Affiliations
Izabella Stach, Vito Fragnelli
Orders of criticality in voting games
The authors focus on the problem of investigating the blackmail power of players in simple games, which is the possibility of players of threatening coalitions to cause them loss using arguments that are (apparently) unj...
Determination of the optimal exchange rate via control of the domestic interest rate in Nigeria
An economic scenario has been considered where the government seeks to achieve a favourable balance-of-payments over a fixed planning horizon through exchange rate policy and control of the domestic interest rate. The dy...
Review of modelling approaches for healthcare simulation
The goal of this paper is to present a summary of various simulation methods applied to health services and to discuss several internal and external determinants for selecting a particular simulation method to study a gi...
Efficiency measurement in dynamic two-stage network structures with flexible intermediate materials
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) described by multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Since DEA was introduced in the 1970s, i...
Decisions involving databases, fuzzy databases and codatabases
The authors consider the following three ways of decision making: (i) decisions involving databases by means of standard tools of sequential logic and universal algebra; (ii) deci sions involvingfuzzy databases by means...