Advances in Business and Management Forecasting

DR. KENNETH D. LAWRENCE is a Professor of Management Science and Business Analytics in the Tuchman School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Professor Lawrence's research is in the areas of applied management science, data mining, forecasting, and multi-criteria decision-making. His current research works include multi-criteria mathematical programming models for productivity analysis, discriminant analysis, portfolio modeling, quantitative finance, and forecasting/data mining. He is a full member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems and a Research Fellow in the Center for Supply Chain Management in the Rutgers Business School. His research work has been cited over 1,750 times in various research publications.

DR. RONALD K. KLIMBERG is a Professor in the Department of Decision Systems Sciences of the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University. Dr. Klimberg has published 3 books, including his Fundamentals of Predictive Analytics Using JMP, edited 9 books, over 50 articles and made over 70 presentations at national and international conferences. His current major interest include multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), multiple objective linear programming (MOLP), data envelopment analysis (DEA), facility location, data visualization, data mining, risk analysis, workforce scheduling, and modeling in generation. He is currently a member of INFORMS, DSI, and MCDM. Ron was the 2007 recipients of the Tenglemann Award for his excellence in scholarship, teaching, and research.