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    • Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Merigó Lindahl, José; Gil Lafuente, Anna María (IOS Press, 2017)
      Fuzzy decision-making consists in making decisions under complex and uncertain environments where the information can be assessed with fuzzy sets and systems. The aim of this study is to review the main contributions in ...
    • Arnott, David; Lizama Garrido, Félix; Song, Yutong (Elsevier, 2017)
      Business intelligence (BI) is often used as the umbrella termfor large-scale decision support systems (DSS) in organizations. BI is currently the largest area of IT investment in organizations and has been rated as the ...
    • Uribe Bravo, Rodrigo; Fuentes García, Alejandra (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)
      Although product placement is a frequently used promotional tool in local and international productions, particularly in combination with advertising, its study has been almost neglected in Latin America. This paper examines ...
    • Avilés Ochoa, Ezequiel; Pérez Arellano, L. A.; León Castro, Ernesto; Merigó Lindahl, José (Int. Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy, 2017)
      In this paper, a new extension of the ordered weighted average (OWA) operator is developed using four different methods: prioritized operators, induced operators, probabilistic operators and distance techniques. This new ...
    • Zambrano, Fabián; Concha, Pablo; Ramis, Francisco; Neriz Jara, Liliana; Bull, María; Veloz, Patricio; Carvajal, Jaime (IEEE, 2017)
      This paper uses agent based simulation to assess the effect of redesigning the points of access to a major public hospital complex in Chile, where nearly 15,000 people will pass through daily. The study is carried out by ...
    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Jara Bertín, Mauricio; López Iturriaga, Félix (Elsevier, 2017)
      We analyze the effect of pyramidal ownership levels on the performance of Chilean firms by considering the impact of business groups. Using an unbalanced panel of 1018 firm-year observations from 88 quoted firms for the ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (Springer, 2017)
      A two-period ultimatum bargaining game is developed in which parties experience an envy-type externality coming from the surplus captured by their counterparts. Our assumptions on envy levels and outside opportunities allow ...
    • Alfaro García, Víctor; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      We present the induced generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (IGOWLA) operator. It is an extension of the generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (GOWLA) operator. The IGOWLA operator uses ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Alrajeh, Nabil; Peris Ortiz, Marta (IEEE, 2017)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) aggregation is an extension of the classical weighted average by using a reordering process of the arguments in a decreasing or increasing way. This article presents new averaging aggregation ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina (Oxford University, 2017)
      This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateraleffects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension ofthe ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Yager, Ronald R. (IEEE, 2017)
      The International Journal of Intelligent Systems was created on 1986. Today, the journal has become thirty years old. In order to celebrate this anniversary, this study develops a bibliometric review of all the papers ...
    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (Taylor and Francis, 2017)
      The factors that influence electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in social networking sites (SNSs) in Latin American countries still need to be understood. This paper looks at factors included by prior research, as well as two ...
    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Kunc, Martin; O'Brien, Frances (Elsevier, 2017)
      This paper presents a protocol for supporting strategy development via system dynamics (SD) model- ing in consultation with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of small organizations; it also reports on the effectiveness of ...
    • Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Duarte Vásquez, Fabián; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Budnich, Marilu; Delgado, Carolina; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...
    • Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      Portfolio selection is the theory that studies the pro-cess of selecting the optimal proportion of different assets. The firstapproach was introduced by Harry Markowitz and was based ona mean-variance framework. This paper ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo (Springer, 2017)
      Increasingly more companies support their strategies and value propositions offering their clients some services that require physical mobility and teamwork by their staff. This article proposes a type of Location-based ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Palacios Marqués, Daniel; Soto Acosta, Pedro (Elsevier, 2017)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper presents the OWA weighted average distance operator. The main ...
    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (Elsevier, 2017)
      This paper examines the determinants of perceived and actual knowledge of commission paid by contributors in the Chilean pension funds industry. Results show that price consciousness and brand credibility are positively ...
    • Hansen Silva, Erwin; Wagner, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2017)
      Some projects take time to build or are slow to yield cash flows. This may impact the dynamics of investment and liquidity management, although few studies test their financial implications. We exploit the peculiar ...
    • Preiss Contreras, Jaime; Silva Pérez, Alexander (Universidad de Chile, 2017-09)
      La Ley N° 20.780 titulada “reforma tributaria que modifica el sistema de tributación de la renta e introduce diversos ajustes en el sistema tributario”, publicada con fecha 29 de septiembre del año 2014 (en adelante, la ...