Title page -- Preface -- Biosketch of Milan Zeleny -- Contents -- Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- Multi-Objective Preferences and Conflicting Objectives: The Case of European Monetary Integration -- Multicriteria Routing Models in Telecommunication Networks - Overview and a Case Study -- Post-Merger High Technology R&D Human Resources Optimization Through the De Novo Perspective -- An Example of De Novo Programming -- Multi-Value Decision-Making and Games: The Perspective of Generalized Game Theory on Social and Psychological Complexity, Contradiction, and Equilibrium -- Comparing Economic Development and Social Welfare in the OECD Countries: A Multicriteria Analysis Approach -- Social and Human System Management -- The Enlightenment, Popper and Einstein -- Value Focused Management (VFM): Capitalizing on the Potential of Managerial Value Drivers -- Zeleny's Human Systems Management and the Advancement of Humane Ideals -- Outsourcing Risks Analysis: A Principal-Agent Theory-Based Perspective -- Mobile Technology: Expanding the Limits of the Possible in Everyday Life Routines -- Informed Intent as Purposeful Coordination of Action -- Competence Set Analysis and Effective Problem Solving -- Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Management -- Information and Knowledge Strategies: Towards a Regional Education Hub and Highly Intelligent Nation -- Needed: Pragmatism in KM -- Knowledge Management Platforms and Intelligent Knowledge Beyond Data Mining -- Continuous Innovation Process and Knowledge Management -- An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Socio-Technical Enablers on Knowledge Sharing -- Urban System and Strategic Planning: Towards a Wisdom Shaped Management -- DigestR Wisdom: Collaborate for Win-Win Human Systems -- Selected Publications of Milan Zeleny -- Biosketches of Contributing Authors -- Author Index.

This volume, edited as a Festschrift in honor of Prof. Milan Zeleny, reflects and emulates his unmistakable legacy: the essential multidimensionality of human and social affairs. There are many levels of this multidimensionality presented in this volume: 1. Multidisciplinarity of contributed papers 2. Multinationality of their authors, extending even to the editors and the publisher and 3. Multicultural and multilevel exposition, ranging from empirical studies to philosophical foundations. Generally, these papers can be divided into three parts: Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Social and Human System Management; and Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Management. It is the recognition of multidimensionality in decision making, economics, optimization, systems, cybernetics and the pursuit of knowledge that bear the stamp of specific Zeleny's contributions. His life-long dedication to multidimensionality has produced an ultimate multidimensional being, living in academic 'multiverse', functioning in a boundaryless world of all continents, cultures and countries. This book is as diverse and as multidimensional as the man and his work.

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