Decision Making Optimization Models for Business Partnerships

Gholam R. Amin is Associate Professor of Management Science in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He is an associate editor of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics at Oxford University Press. Dr. Amin's research interests include performance measurement, productivity and efficiency analysis through data envelopment analysis, optimization, and inverse optimization approaches. Dr. Amin has published in several leading international journals including Operations Research (FT-50), European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Computers and Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematical Modeling, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, ABACUS, Soft Computing, International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Health Economics, Policy and Law, European Journal of Sport Science, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, and IMA Journal of Management Mathematics among others.

Mustapha Ibn Boamah is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. Dr. Ibn Boamah's research interests include open-economy macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and the economics of financial institutions. He has published in various peer-reviewed journals including publications in the Review of Financial Economics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Strategic Change, Social Responsibility Journal, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, International Journal of Social Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Annals of Operations Research, and the European Journal of Operational Research.