Operational Research in Agriculture and Tourism: 7th International Symposium and 29th National Conference on Operational Research, Chania, Greece, Jun [Hardcover]

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.Agricultural Cooperatives and Acceptance of Technological Innovation.- Virtual Incubators and Online Business Tools for Agro-food SMEs .- Design of a Sentiment Lexicon for the Greek Food and Beverage Sector.- Firms Profitability in the Period of Crisis.- Fiscal Multipliers Under Extreme Uncertainty: Case of Greek Tourism Economy.- Forecasting Tourism Demand in Europe.- The Role of Modern Ports and Marine Protected Areas in Eastmeds Environmental Sustainability. The Case of Greece.- A Hybrid Firefly Algorithm Based on Coordinates for the Prize- Collecting Vehicle Routing Problem.- Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: An Updated Literature Review.- A Similarity Hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm for the Orienteering Problem.