Management decision making

This book provides detailed guidance on how sustainability, in terms of the triple bottom line, can be developed in operations strategies via human resource management (HRM) and organizational practices such as teamwork, training and employee involvement.

This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries.

Eurocorridors are characterized by intensive transport flows and dynamic patterns of establishment and household locations.

This book provides the readers with a thorough and systematic introduction to hesitant fuzzy theory.

This book presents papers by experts in the field of Industrial Engineering, covering topics in business strategy; modelling and simulation in operations research; logistics and production; service systems; innovation and knowledge; and project management.

This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning.

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security.

This book presents an integrated approach to monitoring projects in progress using Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management combined with Schedule Risk Analysis.

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services.

This book reports on the development and validation of a generic defeasible logic programming framework for carrying out argumentative reasoning in Semantic Web applications (GF@SWA).

This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems.

"e;Ecosystem Assessment and Fuzzy Systems Management"e; is the edited outcome of the 3rd International Conference on Ecosystem Assessment Management (ICEAM) and the Workshop on the Construction of an Early Warning Platform for Eco-tourism (WCEWPE) in Hainan on May 5-12, 2013, Haikou, China.

The use of social media tools in the enterprise is expanding rapidly and yet, firms are still unclear about the overall value of this activity and how best to facilitate useful outcomes.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies.

This book reports on cutting-edge research carried out within the context of the EU-funded Dicode project, which aims at facilitating and augmenting collaboration and decision making in data-intensive and cognitively complex settings.

This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation.

The 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2012) showcased research on human locomotion.

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet.

The objective of the book is to give a selection from the papers, which summarize several important results obtained within the framework of the Jozsef Hatvany Doctoral School operating at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

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With this book, distinguished and notable contributors wish to honor Professor Charles S.

The European Conference on Complex Systems, held under the patronage of the Complex Systems Society, is an annual event that has become the leading European conference devoted to complexity science.

This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of research fields such as, e.

The fields of similarity and preference are still broadening due to the exploration of new fields of application.

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

Die Beschaffung nimmt bei der betrieblichen Digitalisierung und Vernetzung ("Industrie 4.

Die Beschaffung nimmt bei der betrieblichen Digitalisierung und Vernetzung ("Industrie 4.

This book examines application and methods to incorporating stochastic parameter variations into the optimization process to decrease expense in corrective measures.

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

Die Wertsteigerung gilt dem Mainstream seit Jahren als primäre Zielsetzung unternehmerischen Handelns.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

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.

This book presents the latest trends and developments in multimodal optimization and niching techniques.

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

This book explores the impact of industry 4.

Industry 4.

This book presents papers based on the presentations and discussions at the international workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics held July 16 and 17, 2016 at Tongji University in Shanghai and chaired by Professors Ukkusuri and Yang.

This book highlights quantitative risk assessment and modeling methods for assessing health risks caused by air pollution, as well as characterizing and communicating remaining uncertainties.

Durable strategies that have prolonged effects are prevalent in real-world situations.

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 textbook teaches the basic concepts and methods of project management but also explains how to convert them to useful results in practice.

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

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

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.