Chapter 1: Attitude-based multi-expert evaluation of design.- Chapter 2: An investigation of hidden shared linkages among perceived causal relationships in cognitive maps.- Chapter 3: A new framework for multiple-criteria decision making: The baseline approach.- Chapter 4: Fuzzy similarity and entropy (FSAE) feature selection revisited by using intra-class entropy and a normalized scaling factor.- Chapter 5: A region-based approach for missing value imputation of cooling technologies for the global thermal power plant fleet using a decision tree classifier.- Chapter 6: A neural network based multi-class trading strategy for the S&P 500 index.- Chapter 7: Predicting short-term traffic speed and speed drops in the urban area of a medium-sized European city - a traffic control and decision support perspective.- Chapter 8: Hedging effectiveness of currency ETFs against WTI crude oil price fluctuations .