Management decision making

A seminal collection of research methodology themes, this two-volume work provides a set of key scholarly developments related to robustness, allowing scholars to advance their knowledge of research methods used outside of their own immediate fields.

A seminal collection of research methodology themes, this two-volume work provides a set of key scholarly developments related to robustness, allowing scholars to advance their knowledge of research methods used outside of their own immediate fields.

This book offers a timely snapshot of current soft-computing research and solutions to decision-making and optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in the current social and technological context, addressing fields including logistics, transportation and data analysis.

This focuses on the developing field of building probability models with the power of symbolic algebra systems.

This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking technique for actual organizations.

This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management.

This book provides a handy, unified introduction to the theory of compact extended formulations of exponential-size integer linear programming (ILP) models.

This book provides a framework to help managers go beyond simply fighting fires every day, offering the tools to address the underlying causes of recurring problems and deliver long-term solutions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms.

This book presents the mathematical theory of vector variational inequalities and their relations with vector optimization problems.

This book provides a practice-driven, yet rigorous approach to executive management decision-making that performs well even under unpredictable conditions.

This book presents the latest technologies and operational methods available to support sustainable freight transport practices.

This book describes a wide range real-case applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in maritime related subjects including shipping, port, maritime logistics, cruise ports, waterfront developments, and shipping finance, etc.

This book collects a high-quality selection of contemporary research and case studies on the complexity resulting from human/reliability management in industrial plants and critical infrastructures.

This book uses the concepts of both cultural and psychic distance to analyse managers' perceptions in international business settings, with a specific focus on European and Chinese ventures in the green technology industry.

Fundamental Theories of Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: Theoretical Considerations from Chinese Practices is a collection of decades of research and applications of managing megaprojects using theories of complex systems and management sciences.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

This book demonstrates what kind of problems, originating in a management accounting setting, may be solved with game theoretic models.

This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science.

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

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers.

This book reports on practical approaches for facilitating the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

This book offers a concise introduction and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field of decision-making and consensus modeling, with a special emphasis on fuzzy methods.

This book proposes a new approach to dynamic and online risk assessment of automated and autonomous marine systems, taking into account different environmental and operational conditions.

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

This book is an introduction to relevant aspects of the foraging literature for algorithmic design, and an overview of key families of optimization algorithms that stem from a foraging metaphor.

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains.

This new Edition of Electronic Commerce is a complete update of the leading graduate level/advanced undergraduate level textbook on the subject.

This book presents selected papers on Business Management and Technology, focusing on recent research in Business, Optimization, Technology, and Global Issues.

This book highlights state-of-the-art developments in metaheuristics research.

This book promotes and describes the application of objective and effective decision making in asset management based on mathematical models and practical techniques that can be easily implemented in organizations.

Offering an up-to-date account of systems theories and its applications, this book provides a different way of resolving problems and addressing challenges in a swift and practical way, without losing overview and grip on the details.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Decision Support Systems, ICDSST 2017, held in Namur, Belgium, in May 2017.

This book focuses on modelling financial information flows and information-based asset pricing framework.

This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run.

The Second Edition of this book presents the state of the art in this important field.

This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations.

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations.

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation.

Offering a concise and multidisciplinary reference guide to the state of the art in Australian operations research, this book will be of great value to academics working in many disciplines associated with operations research, as well as industrial practitioners engaged in planning, scheduling and logistics.

This book includes a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (OR2016),"e; which took place at the Helmut-Schmidt-Universitat / Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany, Aug.

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors.

This book provides a straightforward overview for every researcher interested in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems (SDVRPs).

This interdisciplinary reference and guide provides an introduction to modeling methodologies and models which form the starting point for deriving efficient and effective solution techniques, and presents a series of case studies that demonstrate how heuristic and analytical approaches may be used to solve large and complex problems.

This expanded second edition of the 2014 textbook features dedicated sections on action and observation, so that the reader can combine the use of the developed theoretical basis with practical guidelines for deployment.

This book introduces readers to essential technology assessment and forecasting tools, demonstrating their use on the basis of multiple cases.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic review of the latest research findings in the area of intuitionistic fuzzy calculus.

This book addresses the challenges companies face when different customer value propositions require them to pursue a differentiated supply chain strategy.

This book focuses on optimal control and systems engineering in the big data era.