Management decision making

This book examines the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, its varied uses, as well as its limitations for solving real-world scenarios.

This book presents healthcare logistics solutions that have been successfully implemented at a variety of healthcare facilities.

This Palgrave Pivot presents tournament design mainly within the axioms of incentive compatibility and fairness.

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.

This book helps readers understand the main issues, challenges, strategies, and solution methods in Aggregate Planning (AP), an important part of Supply Chain Management.

This handbook includes three parts, corresponding to the following three domains of OR/MS research related to sustainability: (i) Systems Design, Innovation, and Technology, (ii) Manufacturing, Logistics, and Transportation, and (iii) Sustainable Natural Resource Management.

This volume chronicles the high impact research career of Harvey Greenberg (1940-2018), and in particular, it reviews historical contributions, presents current research projects, and suggests future pursuits.

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.

This book presents the multi-criteria approach to decision support, as well as the various multi-criteria tools to help avoid multi-objective optimization.

This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models.

This book addresses new concepts, methods, algorithms, modeling, and applications of green supply chain, inventory control problems, assignment problems, transportation problem, linear problems and new information related to optimization for the topic from the theoretical and applied viewpoints of neutrosophic sets and logic.

This book examines cross-chain control centers (4C), an ambitious concept in supply chain management and logistics that is intended to foster collaboration between different supply chains to increase efficiency.

This book examines inventory and production strategies that can reduce unexpected breakdown costs.

This book presents a consistent and complete framework for studying the risk management of a pension fund.

Intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students as well as scientists and engineers, this textbook presents a multi-disciplinary view of optimization, providing a thorough examination of algorithms, methods, techniques, and tools from diverse areas of optimization.

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

The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby's cybernetics.

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

This book analyses decision-making in dynamic economic environments.

Data and its processed state 'information' have become an indispensable resource for virtually all aspects of business, education, etc.

2019 marked the 85th anniversary of Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg's habilitation thesis "e;Marktform und Gleichgewicht,"e; which formed the roots of bilevel optimization.

This first book on Maritime Informatics describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in developing innovative service systems.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on responsible operations practices.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2018), which was held at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium on September 12 - 14, 2018, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) and the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL).

The second edition of this defining handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to decision-making in an MCDM framework.

This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing.

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

This research-oriented book presents key contributions on architecting the digital transformation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2020, which was planned to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 7-11, 2020.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2019), which was held at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, on September 4-6, 2019, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) the Austrian Operations Research Society (OGOR), and the Swiss Operational Research Society (SOR/ASRO).

The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

This textbook provides a detailed analysis of operation and planning problems faced by virtual power plants participating in different electricity markets.

This book introduces readers to the novel concept of spherical fuzzy sets, showing how these sets can be applied in practice to solve various decision-making problems.

This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities.

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques.

This book pulls together many perspectives on the theory, methods and practice of drawing judgments from panels of experts in assessing risks and making decisions in complex circumstances.

The book provides an introduction to logistics and supply chain management and the application of evolutionary computation, focusing on specific fields related to supply chain issues, from strategic sourcing decisions, and production planning and control to inventory to logistics and its application using evolutionary / heuristics techniques.

This 2nd edition is a thoroughly revised and augmented version of the book with the same title published in 1999.

This book describes an effective decision-making and planning architecture for enhancing the navigation capabilities of automated vehicles in the presence of non-detailed, open-source maps.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2020, organised in Zaragoza, Spain, in May 2020.

This book covers game-theoretic approaches to analyzing policies for environmental regulation in the power sector.

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.

Like norms, translation invariant functions are a natural and powerful tool for the separation of sets and scalarization.