TY - BOOK AU - Andreopoulou,Zacharoula AU - Koliouska,Christiana AU - Zopounidis,Constantin ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Multicriteria and Clustering : Classification Techniques in Agrifood and Environment T2 - Cooperative Management, SN - 9783319555652 AV - HD30.23 U1 - 658.40301 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Operations research KW - Decision making KW - Statistics  KW - Environmental economics KW - Agricultural economics KW - Agriculture KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory KW - Statistical Theory and Methods KW - Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance KW - Environmental Economics KW - Agricultural Economics N1 - Introduction -- Methodologies -- Applications in Various Agricultural, Food and Environmental Issues; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in practice. Further, it presents some of the most common methodologies for statistical analysis and mathematical modeling, and discusses in detail ten examples that explain and show “hands-on” how operational research can be used in key decision-making processes at enterprises in the agricultural food and environmental industries. As such, the book offers a valuable resource especially well suited as a textbook for postgraduate courses UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55565-2 ER -