Decision Making and Optimization

Prof. Martin Gavalec, Ph.D. is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czech Republic. His professional interests include non-standard optimization methods based on the maximum operation, in combination with further ones, such as the minimum or the fuzzy triangular norm operations. He is an author and co-author of 3 books in English and more than 45 papers listed in WoS.Prof. Jaroslav Ramik, Ph.D. is a professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research at the Silesian University Opava, School of Business Karvina, Czech Republic. He is a head of Department of Mathematical methods in Economics. His professional interests include optimization methods in economics and decision making. He is an author of 6 books in English and more than 50 papers listed in WoS. He is active in the Czech Society for Operations Research where he served as a former president of the Society in two time periods.Prof. Karel Zimmermann, D.Sc. is a professor of mathematics and operations research at the Faculty of mathematics and physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His professional interests include optimization methods in economics. He is an author of 5 books in English and more than 40 papers listed in WoS.

"The main purpose of this monograph is to report on recent developments in the field of decision making and optimization, with a strong emphasis on useful techniques and ingenious ideas from matrix analysis and fuzzy set theory. ... a wide variety of examples and counterexamples are included in order to help the interested reader to clarify difficult parts of the book. The book can be read by researchers and at some points by advanced graduates or undergraduates." (Vasilios N. Katsikis, Mathematical Reviews, June, 2015) "The authors present some special cases of matrices and discuss their various properties and applications. ... In each chapter some theory is presented and followed by description of solving methods and examples. The book is a valuable contribution, useful for both graduate students and researchers." (Marcin Anholcer, zbMATH 1317.90004, 2015)

• Special Matrices in Decision Making: Preliminaries.- Pairwise Comparison Matrices in Decision Making.- Preference Matrices with Fuzzy Elements in Decision Making.- Special Matrices in Max-Min Algebra: Optimization Problems under Max-Min Separable Constraints.