Operational Research in Agriculture and Tourism: 7th International Symposium and 29th National Conference on Operational Research, Chania, Greece, June 2018

✍ Scribed by Evangelia Krassadaki, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Series: Cooperative Management
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management. It covers both the primary sector of agriculture and agricultural economics, and the tertiary sector of the tourism industry. Findings and lessons learned from these innovations can be readily applied to various other contexts. The book chiefly focuses on cooperative management issues, and on developing solutions to provide decision support in multi-criteria scenarios.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Agricultural Cooperatives and Acceptance of Technological Innovation (Vartan Kesiz Abnousi, Konstantinos Karantemiris, Andreas G. Doulis)....Pages 1-25
Virtual Incubators and Online Business Tools for Agro-Food SMEs (Christina Diakaki, Nikoleta Banani, Evangelos Grigoroudis)....Pages 27-48
Design of a Sentiment Lexicon for the Greek Food and Beverage Sector (Anastasios Liapakis, Theodore Tsiligiridis, Constantine Yialouris)....Pages 49-66
Firms’ Profitability in the Period of Crisis: Evidence from Greek Food and Beverage Listed Firms in the Athens Stock Exchange (Konstantina Panagiotakopoulou, Petros Kalantonis, Panagiotis Kaldis)....Pages 67-82
Fiscal Multipliers Under Extreme Uncertainty: Case of Greek Tourism Economy (Georgios Alexopoulos, Alexandros Apostolakis, Constantin Zopounidis, Alexandros Garefalakis, Marianna Eskantar)....Pages 83-105
Forecasting Tourism Demand in Europe (Dimitrios I. Vortelinos, Konstantinos Gkillas, Christos Floros, Lavrentios Vasiliadis)....Pages 107-129
The Role of Modern Ports and Marine Protected Areas in Eastmed’s Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Greece (Basil Tselentis, Theodoros Pelagidis, Sotirios Manologlou)....Pages 131-143
A Hybrid Firefly Algorithm Based on Coordinates for the Prize-Collecting Vehicle Routing Problem (Manousos Rigakis, Dimitra Trachanatzi, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis)....Pages 145-167
Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: An Updated Literature Review (Syrine Jemaa, Ahmed Alayidi, Athanasios Migdalas, George Baourakis, Periklis Drakos)....Pages 169-196
A Similarity Hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm for the Orienteering Problem (Eleftherios Tsakirakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis)....Pages 197-218

✦ Subjects

Mathematics; Operations Research, Management Science; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Agricultural Economics; Tourism Management