The Decision Data Base. E-book. Formato PDF Jeremy F. Shapiro   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

An increasing number of managers have come to realize that transactional data in their corporate data bases cannot be used directly to analyze many of their important decision problems. The difficulty is especially apparent if the problems involve large sets of numerical data. This is the case, for example, when managers are confronted with facilities location, production scheduling, or other value chain management problems. It is also the case for portfolio selection and related financial decision problems.