Using a Choquet integral-based approach for incorporating decision-maker’s preference judgments in a Data Envelopment Analysis model Authors: Miguel Alves Pereira; José Rui Figueira; Rui Cunha Marques   Abstract: In a world in permanent (r)evolution that revolves around money, seeking new ways to contain costs, better allocate resources, and, overall, improve performance is a constant across […]

Optimizing payments based on efficiency, quality, complexity,and heterogeneity: the case of hospital funding Authors: Diogo C. Ferreira; Alexandre M. Nunes; Rui C. Marques.   Abstract: In several countries around the world, public hospitals are paid for by the health care services they provide tothe population. Different funding systems are available, such as the Beveridge Model. […]

Pay for performance in health care: a new best practice tariff-based tool using a log-linear piecewise frontier function and a dual–primal approach for unique solutions Auhtors: Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Rui Cunha Marques; Alexandre Morais Nunes.   Abstract: Health care systems worldwide have faced a problem of resources scarcity that, in turn, should be allocated to […]

Improving medical decision-making with a management science game theory approach to liver transplantation Authors: Francisco V. Mendonça; Margarida Catalão-Lopes; Rui Tato Marinho; José Rui Figueira.   Abstract: Even though nowadays medicine is necessarily linked with technology, it is still a service involving human interaction, which frequently requires the help of management science tools. Indeed, a […]

An indirect elicitation method for the parameters of the ELECTRE TRI-nB model using genetic algorithms Authors: Eduardo Fernández, José Rui Figueira, Jorge Navarro.   Abstract: Indirect approaches for eliciting preference model parameters for multiple criteria decision aiding are of growing interest because they imply relatively less cognitive effort from the decision-maker (DM). Direct approaches are […]