Management decision making

This volume presents advanced techniques to modeling markets, with a wide spectrum of topics, including advanced individual demand models, time series analysis, state space models, spatial models, structural models, mediation, models that specify competition and diffusion models.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2016, held in Bellingham, WA, USA, in June 2016.

This book is an expository introduction to the methodology of sensitivity analysis of model output.

This book demonstrates the power of neural networks in learning complex behavior from the underlying financial time series data.

This is a complete update of the first edition of Level Crossing Methods in Stochastic Models, which was published in 2008.

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities.

Develops scenario planning methods in ways that link scenario analysis to improved decision making, engage time-poor senior decision makers, attenuate decision makers' tendency to deflect responsibility for bleak, negative scenario outcomes, and enhance causal analysis within scenario-storyline development.

This book is an extension of the author's first book and serves as a guide and manual on how to specify and compute 2-, 3-, and 4-Event Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN).

This book presents classical Markov Decision Processes (MDP) for real-life applications and optimization.

This is a book about how management and control decisions are made by persons who collaborate and possibly use the support of an information system.

The book discusses the concept of the smart city, and is based on a multi-service and multi-sectoral approach to urban planning, including various urban functions and the human capital of cities.

This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands.

This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "e;app"e;, that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.

This book focuses on the analytic principles of business practice and big data.

Metaheuristics exhibit desirable properties like simplicity, easy parallelizability, and ready applicability to different types of optimization problems.

This book offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight to navigate through complexity.

This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques.

Systems are everywhere and we are surrounded by them.

This book presents real-world decision support systems, i.

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and formal risk analyses.

This volume results from the "e;Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL).

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

This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research OR2015,"e; which was held at the University of Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015.

This book introduces a novel approach to discrete optimization, providing both theoretical insights and algorithmic developments that lead to improvements over state-of-the-art technology.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

This book investigates the intuitive application of strategic knowledge arbitrage and serendipity (SKARSE) principles by CEOs in their use of mobile electronic devices.

This textbook is intended for an introductory graduate level on process control, taught in most engineering curricula.

The book offers a comprehensive introduction to methods for solving multiple criteria decision making and group decision making problems with hesitant fuzzy information.

This book reports on cutting-edge research in innovative systems interfaces, with an emphasis on both lifecycle development and human-technology interaction, especially in the cases of virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems.

This book explores the different ways in which human-factors engineering influences organizations' and enterprises' well-being and competitiveness.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors.

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures.

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy methods for solving flow tasks in both transportation and networks.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.

This book deals with complex problems in the fields of logistics and supply chain management and discusses advanced methods, especially from the field of computational intelligence (CI), for solving them.

This book systematically studies the stochastic non-cooperative differential game theory of generalized linear Markov jump systems and its application in the field of finance and insurance.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016.

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems.

In scheduling theory, the models that have attracted considerable attention during the last two decades allow the processing times to be variable, i.

This book presents a broad range of innovative applications and case studies in all areas of management and engineering, including public administration, finance, marketing, engineering, transportation, and energy systems.

This volume collects research papers addressing topical issues in economics and management with a particular focus on dynamic models which allow to analyze and foster the decision making of firms in dynamic complex environments.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to fuzzy statistics and fuzzy decision-making techniques.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This book presents the construction and resolution of 50 practical optimization problems and covers an exceptionally wide range, including games-associated problems (Unblock Me, Sudokus), logistical problems, and problems concerning plant distribution, production, operations scheduling, management and resource allocation.

This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making.

This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background.