Mathematical Modelling in Decision Making Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, “Mathematical Modelling in Decision Making Analysis”.

Mathematical modelling is playing an increasingly important role in all kinds of decision-making, as well as in logistics management. This approach encourages making decisions and objective assessments. Moreover, it also enables the properties of algebraic structures and optimisation models to be applied to practical problems, thus transferring the concepts of uniqueness, consistency and independence, which are characteristic of mathematics, to practical decisions.

The effectiveness of logistics management depends on the quality of the management decisions made. However, making decisions in increasingly volatile, uncertain and complex environments is a challenge for logistics managers. Variable and unpredictable events create uncertainty, which involves subjectivity. However, uncertainty is a reality that we have to face daily. This has often been the subject of research in the last few years. Researchers have been looking for ways to consider uncertainty in decision-making processes.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather articles reflecting the latest developments in mathematical modelling in decision making analysis regarding uncertainty in various fields of logistics and the supply chain. This will help to promote future research in this area, by presenting new methods and identifying the shortcomings of methods already in use.

Specific methods and application areas include, but are not limited to:

• Methods and applications of decision making in logistics;
• Multi-criteria decision making in logistics;
• Decision making and optimization in logistics;
• Decision models in logistics.

Dr. Patricija Bajec
Dr. Danijela Tuljak-Suban
Guest Editors

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• multiple criteria decision analysis
• uncertainty
• logistics
• transport
• decision models
• discrete choice models