Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Finance, Insurance and Investment

Minwir Al-Shammari is a Professor of Management and the Dean of the University of Bahrain’s College of Business Administration.  He holds a PhD in Business Administration from University of Glasgow, UK in 1990 and MS in Industrial Management from Central Missouri State University, USA in 1986. He has been involved for 25 years in teaching, research, training, and consultancy in Decision Aid, Project Management, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management. He has published more than 30 research papers in International Journals such as, the European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, the Expert systems with Applications and the International Journal of Knowledge Management.Hatem Masri is an Associate Professor at the College of Business Administration, in the University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. He received his PhD in Management in 2004 and Master in Operations Research in 1999 from the University of Tunis, Tunisia. His research interests include multiple objective stochastic programming, supply chain management, financial engineering, and vehicle routing problems. His research has been published in several international journals (EJOR, ANOR, FSS, IJAR, ...) and funded by the University of Tunis, the University of Nizwa and the University of Bahrain. He is a member of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, IEEE and the Tunisian Decision Aid Society.

• Multiple Criteria in Islamic Portfolio Selection.- Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Goal Programming for Optimal Venture Capital Investments and Portfolio Management.- On Dynamic Multiple Criteria Decision Making Models: A Goal Programming Approach.- Cross-frontier DEA methodology to evaluate the relative performance of stock and mutual insurers: Comprehensive analysis.- Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Mutual Funds Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis.- Scalarization Methods in Multicriteria Optimization, Robustness, Risk Theory and Finance.- The Multiobjective Nature of Bonus-Malus Sys-tems in Insurance Companies.- A new Fitness Guided Crossover Operator and its application for solving the Constrained Portfolio Selection Problem.- BOCR Analysis: a Framework for Forming Portfolio of Developing Projects.- VIKOR method with an application to borrowing terms selection.- Mutual Funds’ Socially Responsible Portfolio Selection with Fuzzy Data.- Auditing and Game theory: A survey.