The aim of this thesis is analysis and resolution of the decision-making problem "selection of merchandising and gifts supplier in an international company" using multi-criteria decision process while respecting risk. The goal of this thesis is to select a suitable supplier and offer recommendation to company's management for solving similar decision processes. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the knowledge base of methods and procedures of decision analysis that are later applied in the practical part of the thesis on the specific project with aim to optimize the decision-making process and identify the best variant. The conclusion of the thesis provides recommendations for solving similar problem in the future.

The thesis is focused on the consumer behavior of the households in the period from 2003 to 2013. The theoretical part is divided into two parts, household consumption from the perspective of marketing, and from the perspective of economics. In the marketing section explains the concepts of consumer, household, consumer credit, consumer behavior, consumer predisposition and the buying decision process. In the section dedicated to economics concepts are explained, the budget line consumption, preferences, and surplus consumer's optimum. In the methodological part of the work describes the secondary sources from which I draw the data in the practical part. Listed here are provided for the investigated questions. The practical part includes information about the average income per person per year, the average expenditure per person per year, and also about the structure of consumption. I'm watching whether consumer behavior affect different criteria, for example, the age of the person at the head of the household, the size of the municipality in which the person lives in the household, the head of the household or education of the person at the head of the household. In conclusion is a summary of the collected data.

The subject of this thesis is the consumers behavior on the residential property market in the Czech Republic, focusing on the specifics of the capital city. Based on the original research, the main goal of this thesis is to reveal the typical behavior and issues of the customers when buying real estate in Prague and evaluate the customer purchasing behavior of young population, with a focus on the college students. The secondary goal is to identify the profile of consumers on the real estate market in the Czech Republic and to describe the subjects on the Czech real estate market. The research is based on both qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative questionnaire surveys methods, providing a view of the problems of the real estate market from different angles.

The master thesis explores consumer behaviour of young women on the hairdressing services market. It focuses on purchase motivation, perceived risks associated with this type of service and determines factors that influence the choice of a hairdressing salon. It also examines satisfaction of the research target group with hairdressing services. The first part of the thesis covers the specifics of service marketing and consumer behaviour in service context. That is followed by chapter summarizing the results of research on the topic from secondary sources. Practical part of the thesis is introduced with a chapter dedicated to the conducted individual interviews. Hypotheses are defined based on secondary data and the individual interviews. The last part of the thesis analyses the results of the questionnaire survey, verifies hypotheses defined in the previous chapter and summarizes the findings to make recommendations that can primarily serve hairdressers and hairdressing salons.

This thesis analyzes the effects of various factors on consumer behavior of the population and their subsequent manifestations in consumer purchase decision-making process. The first part describes general concepts of consumer behavior and then it is followed by an analyse of cultural, sociological, psychological and ecnomic effects. Each chapter also specifficaly describes how these factors may affect consumers themselves. The theoretical section is folowed by the practical part, in which could be, because of adequate theoretical knowledge, specified eight hypotheses. In order to need collecting necessery data was completed a questionnaire. Its first part analyzes specific kind of consumer behavior manifestations, the second one analyzes the factors that influence the loan amount, which I chose as one of the consumer behavior manifestations. Three hypotheses were not confirmed, remaining five hypotheses were confirmed. With using the regression analysis there was shown that the factors which influence the loan amount the most are the wage amount, the purpose of the loan, marital status and age.

The thesis is devoted to the topic of mobile applications focusing on educational applications for preschoolers. The introductory part deals with the theory of application ecosystem, purchase decision-making process, and marketing of mobile applications. The following chapters are focused on primary and secondary research. The aim of thesis is to analyze the situation on mobile application market worldwide and in the Czech Republic with a focus on educational applications for children. More importantly, it intends to reveal parent's attitudes toward downloading applications for their children up to age six. The conclusion is a summary of acquired knowledge and the proposal of possible measures resulting from the research.

Discrete time sequential decision processes require that an agent select an action at each time step. As humans, we plan over long time horizons and use temporal abstraction by selecting temporally extended actions such as “make lunch” or “get a masters degree”, whereby each is comprised of more granular actions. This thesis concerns itself with such hierarchical temporal abstractions in the form of macro actions and options, as they apply to goal-based Markov Decision Processes. A novel algorithm for discovering hierarchical macro actions in goal-based MDPs, as well as a novel algorithm utilizing landmark options for transfer learning in multi-task goal- based reinforcement learning settings are introduced. Theoretical properties regarding the life-long regret of an agent executing the latter algorithm are also discussed.

La presente investigación tiene como finalidad identificar la relación del marketing experiencial en el proceso de decisión de comprala lealtad de consumo de cines en millennials del NSE AB de la zona 7 de Lima Metropolitana. Para ello, se implementó una metodologís mixta, en la que la en primera instancia es basada en una investigación cualitativa, dentro de la cual se realizaron entrevistas; seguido de una investigación cuantitativa en la que se realizaron 261 encuestas, logrando obtener hallazgos de dicha herramienta, tales como correlaciones positivas entre la lealtad y la experiencia a través de producto, punto de venta y consumo. Los hallazgos sobre el marketing experiencial en la lealtad de los millennials son relevantes para sector cinematográfico; puesto que ayuda a entender cuáles son las dimensiones del marketing experiencial que tienen un mayor impacto sobre los jóvenes y cómo es que la lealtad de marca se puede medir en base a una serie de indicadores que todas las empresas del rubro deberían tener en consideración para su estrategia de marketing. Finalmente, las palabras clave de la presente investigación son: marketing experiencial, proceso de decisión de compra, millennials y lealtad. / The objective of this research is to identify the relationship of marketing experience in the consumer loyalty purchase decision process of cinemas in millennia of NSE AB in zone 7 of Metropolitan Lima. For this, a mixed methodology is implemented, in the first instance it is based on a qualitative research, within which interviews are found; 261 surveys, obtaining findings from this tool, stories as positive correlations between loyalty and experience through the product, point of sale and consumption. The findings on experiential marketing in millennial loyalty are relevant to the film industry; since it helps to understand what are the dimensions of experiential marketing that have a greater impact on young people and how brand loyalty can be measured based on a series of indicators that all companies in the field should take into account for their marketing strategy. Finally, the keywords of this research are: experiential marketing, purchasing decision process, millennials and loyalty. / Trabajo de investigación

Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have a higher mortality-to-incidence ratio for breast cancer compared to high-income countries (HICs) because of late-stage diagnosis. Mammography screening is recommended for early diagnosis, however, current screening guidelines are only generalized by economic disparities, and are based on extrapolation of data from randomized controlled trials in HICs, which have different disease burdens and all-cause mortality compared to LMICs. Moreover, the infrastructure capacity in LMICs is far below that needed for adopting current screening guidelines. This study analyzes the impact of disease burden, infrastructure availability, and other cause mortality on optimal mammography screening schedules for LMICs. Further, these key features are analyzed under the context of overdiagnosis, epidemiologic/clinical uncertainty in pathways of the initial stage of cancer, and variability in technological availability for diagnosis and treatment. It uses a Markov decision process (MDP) model to estimate optimal schedules under varying assumptions of resource availability, applying it to six LMICs. Results suggest that screening schedules should change with disease burden and life-expectancy. For countries with similar life-expectancy but different disease burden, the model suggests to screen age groups with higher incidence rates. For countries with similar incidence rate and different life expectancy, the model suggests to screen younger age groups for countries with lower life-expectancy. Overdiagnosis and differences in screening technology had minimal impact on optimal schedules. Optimality of screening schedules were sensitive to epidemiologic/clinical uncertainty. Results from this study suggest that, instead of generalized screening schedules, those tailored to disease burden and infrastructure capacity could help optimize resources. Results from this study can help inform current screening guidelines and future health investment plans.

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