Multi-Criteria Decision Making

The book covers the domain of multi-criteria decision making, a topic which has gained significant attention of researchers and practitioners spanning a variety of disciplines for enhancing their decision making in real life situation. The topics in this volume help readers understand the techniques in the model building and analysis stage. The chapters cover a variety of techniques and their applications for interesting problems. This book will be of interest to readers in diverse disciplines such as engineering, business, management, humanities, psychology and law.

Dr. Jitesh J. Thakkar is a Professor at National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), India. He served as faculty at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur for 10 years. He holds a Ph.D in Supply Chain Management from IIT Delhi, M.Tech. in Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi and Bachelor’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Sardar Patel University, India. His areas of interests include transportation management, logistics and supply chain management, project management, service operations management, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, optimization, statistical modeling and system dynamics. He has supervised 14 Ph.D. and 80 B.Tech./M.Tech. projects at IIT Kharagpur. He has a H-index 24 and 70 research papers published in SCI/SCOPUS listed journals. He has delivered over 100 invited sessions at various reputed platforms and contributed to journals of national and international repute.