Management decision making

This book provides a unique, focused introduction to the analytical skills, methods and techniques in the assessment of credit risk that are necessary to tackle and analyze complex credit problems.

This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases.

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market.

The book focuses on the next fields of computer science: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, decision theory, and computer-aided production management systems.

The second volume of this successful handbook represents varied perspectives on the fast-expanding field of Service Science.

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

This book sheds light on one of the biggest development issues of our time: how the rise of entrepreneurship and the associated mindset is likely to unfold in unexpected places and change socio-economic and political fortunes.

This monograph aims to familiarize readers with the problem of evaluating the quality and reliability of digital geographic information in terms of their use.

This book presents the latest developments in optimization and optimal control models; exact, approximate and hybrid methods; and their applications in lean and green supply chains.

This book surveys new algorithmic approaches and applications to natural and man-made disasters such as oil spills, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires.

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge research on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ).

This introduction to the field of hyper-heuristics presents the required foundations and tools and illustrates some of their applications.

This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges.

This book combines the analytic principles of digital business and data science with business practice and big data.

This book presents practical approaches for facilitating the achievement of excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

This monograph aims to familiarize readers with the problem of evaluating the quality and reliability of digital geographic information in terms of their use.

This book brings together studies broadly addressing human error from different disciplines and perspectives.

This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains.

The second edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply-chain and operations management, combining value creation networks and interacting processes.

This book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies.

As more and more industries are experiencing digital disruption, using information technology to enable a competitive advantage becomes a critical success factor for all enterprises.

This book offers an introduction to fuzzy sets theory and their operations, with a special focus on aggregation and negation functions.

This book examines issues related to the alignment of business strategies and analytics.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.

The authors stress the relative simplicity, efficiency, flexibility of use, and suitability of various approaches used to solve difficult optimization problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2018, held in Nanjing, China, in June 2018.

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation.

This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent interactions between security managers and potential adversaries.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge approaches for decision-making in hierarchical organizations.

Multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods are illustrated in this book through theoretical and computational techniques utilizing Python.

This Handbook presents the state of the art overview of current research on anticipation studies.

This book brings together research in humanitarian operations, behavioral operations and dynamic simulation.

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics.

This book presents the main principles of preference disaggregation analysis and covers theoretical advances in preference modelling, group decision making, classification methods, robustness analysis, process mining, and decision support systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Decision Support Systems, ICDSST 2018, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May 2018.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2017), which was held at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany on September 6-8, 2017.

The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.