1. Management Information Systems.- Empirical assessment of information technology chargeback systems decisions.- Lessons learnt from the successful adoption of an ERP: The central role of trust.- Simultaneous analysis of heterogenous databases on the web: The ADDSIA project.- 2. Education Innovations & Distance Learning.- Decision support for the management of admissions to academic programs.- The use of tacit knowledge in selection decisions in universities.- 3. International Business.- Role of political violence in foreign direct investment decisions.- On the stability of countries' national technological systems.- 4. Marketing.- Marketing of differentiated fresh produce.- A decision support system for the seller's return problem in the product line design.- 5. Finance and Banking.- Portfolio performance measures: A brief survey and hypothesis testing.- A system dynamics model of stock price movements.- Information effects on the accuracy of neural network financial forecasting.- Is the Taiwan stock market efficient?.- The dynamics of implied volatility surfaces.- Application of nonstationary Markovian models to risk management in automobile leasing.- 6. Optimization & Decision Making.- Decision making Under Various Types of Uncertainty.- Decision aid in the optimization of the interval objective function.- A fuzzy extension of a mixed integer MOLP model for solving the power generation expansion problem.- Management science for marine petroleum logistics.- 7. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Aid & Practice.- Dealing with missing data in rough set analysis of multi-attribute and multi-criteria decision problems.- Cardinal value measurement with MACBETH.- Inferring a multicriteria preference model for rural development projects evaluation.- An adaptable frameworkfor educational software evaluation.- Assessing country risk using a multi-group discrimination method: A comparative analysis.- 8. Decision Support Systems and Information Technology.- RODOS: Decision support for nuclear emergencies.- DSS for the evaluation of national IT infrastructure investments: A study of cable television in Greece.- Global IT outsourcing decisions: Contract structure, negotiations, and global deal teams.- Using Internet multimedia database information systems for decision support in conservation planning.- An interactive workload and risk balancing model and decision support system for probationer assignment.- 9. Health Care Planning & Hospital Operations.- A goal programming scheme to determine the budget assignment among the hospitals of a sanitary system.- A simulation model to evaluate the interaction between acute, rehabilitation, long stay care and the community.- Author Index.
