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This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems. It explores expert systems and neural networks, knowledge engineering and management, fuzzy sets and systems and computational methods for optimization, data analysis and decision making. It presents applications in Economics, Finance, Management and Engineering. The book undertakes to stimulate scientific exchange, ideas and experiences in the field of decision making in Economy and Management. Researchers and practitioners alike will benefit from this book, when they are dealing with imprecision, vagueness and uncertainty in the context of decision making.

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Globalization and Crisis of Values.- Models Estimation of National Social and Human Capital Qualities.- Risk Management in Sports Sponsorship.- The Cultural Heritage between Protection and Enhance.- Uncertain Optimal Inventory as a Strategy for Enterprise Global Positioning.- Robotics, Automation and Information Systems: Future Perspectives and Correlation with Culture, Sport and Life Science.- Cultural and Sports as Catalysis for the XXI Century Society.- The Forgotten Effects Model on Selection Policies to Climate Change Adaptation.- The Challenge of Integration against the Big International Reconstitutions: Role of Science, Culture and Sport.- Complexity as Interplay between Science and Sport.- Affinity as Basis for Interchangeability between Athletes.- The Efficiency Analysis of Automated Lines of Companies Based on DEA Method.- The Expertise on the Valuation Process Applied to the Discounted Cash Flows.- An Efficient ANFIS Based Approach for Screening of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) from Chest CT Scans with Adaptive Median Filtering.- Economic Sustainability of Integrated Hydropower Development of Ero-Omola Falls, Kwara State, Nigeria.- Statement of the Synthesis Problem of the Intellectual System of Adaptive Management.- Profit Efficiency of Small Scale Layer Producers in Some Selected Local Government Areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria.- Investigation into the Effect of Velocity Distribution on Dry Season Hydrocarbon Degradation in Pond System.- Science, Culture and Sport in the Twenty-First Century Current Trends in Sports Marketing.

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