Management decision making

This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, XX International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, and International IIE Conference 2014, hosted by ADINGOR, ABEPRO and the IIE, whose mission is to promote links between researchers and practitioners from different branches, to enhance an interdisciplinary perspective of industrial engineering and management.

This book presents innovative research on various aspects of sustainability in the field of operations management and illustrates the potential of sustainability thinking and practice to improve operations performance and thereby meet customer needs.

This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing.

This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science.

This monograph deals with theoretical and practical aspects of creating course timetables at academic institutions.

This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management.

Our everyday life is unthinkable without optimization.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been one of the foremost mathematical methods for decision making with multiple criteria and has been widely studied in the operations research literature as well as applied to solve countless real-world problems.

This book highlights recent advances in the development of effective modeling and solution approaches to enhance the performance of military logistics.

This book describes the methods used to forecast the demands at inventory holding locations.

Providing a comprehensive overview of various methods and applications in decision engineering, this book presents chapters written by a range experts in the field.

This book is focused on the impact of ocean transport logistics on global supply chains.

This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective.

This book presents the latest findings on stochastic dynamic programming models and on solving optimal control problems in networks.

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising.

This volume explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics, collaboration, and decision support with an emphasis on business intelligence and social media.

Develops insights into solving complex problems in engineering, biomedical sciences, social science and economics based on artificial intelligence.

The book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management.

This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Rome, Italy, in May and July 2013.

Putting forward a unified presentation of the features and possible applications of probabilistic preferences composition, and serving as a methodology for decisions employing multiple criteria, this book maximizes reader insights into the evaluation in probabilistic terms and the development of composition approaches that do not depend on assigning weights to the criteria.

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 not having a grip on the details.

This book is a study of the interactions between different types of systems, their environment, and their subsystems.

Throughout the book, theoretical foundations necessary for understanding Electronic Commerce (EC) are presented, ranging from consumer behavior to the economic theory of competition.

The contributions of this volume stem from the "e;Fifth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems"e; held in Gainesville, FL in February 2013, and discuss state-of the-art techniques in handling problems and solutions in the broad field of information systems.

This book examines seven key combinatorial engineering frameworks (composite schemes consisting of algorithms and/or interactive procedures) for hierarchical modular (composite) systems.

This book investigates several duality approaches for vector optimization problems, while also comparing them.

Multistage stochastic optimization problems appear in many ways in finance, insurance, energy production and trading, logistics and transportation, among other areas.

Providing readers with a detailed examination of resilient controls in risk-averse decision, this monograph is aimed toward researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering with a systems-theoretic concentration.

This book presents recent research developments in social networks, economics, management, marketing and optimization applied to sports.

This book explores economic concepts related to disaster losses, describes mechanisms that determine the economic consequences of a disaster, and reviews methodologies for making decisions regarding risk management and adaptation.

Very little has been published on optimization of pharmaceutical portfolios.

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The book is a benefit for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of operations research, decision theory, optimization theory, linear algebra, interval analysis and fuzzy sets.

This book is the first easy-to-read text on nonsmooth optimization (NSO, not necessarily di?

This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium.

Computer simulation-based education and training is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Data mining applications range from commercial to social domains, with novel applications appearing swiftly; for example, within the context of social networks.

This book provides a perspective on a number of approaches to financial modelling and risk management.

Consolidating existing knowledge in Design Science, this book proposes a new research method to aid the exploration of design and problem solving within business, science and technology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), held in Toulouse, France, during June 10-13, 2014.

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2013)"e; which took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013.

The overwhelming data produced everyday and the increasing performance and cost requirements of applications are transversal to a wide range of activities in society, from science to industry.

The author is one of the prominent researchers in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a powerful data analysis tool that can be used in performance evaluation and benchmarking.

This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis.

This book describes in full the major approaches used to evaluate investment in real estate and shows how theory informs decision-aid methods and tools to support such evaluation.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

This book provides a concise introduction into the fundamentals and applied techniques of multiple criteria decision making in the finance sector.