Management decision making

This book includes a spectrum of concepts, such as performance, productivity, operations research, econometrics, and data science, for the practically and theoretically important areas of 'productivity analysis/data envelopment analysis' and 'data science/big data'.

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

This book has resulted from the activities of IFAC TC 5.

This book offers an introduction to optimization theory in normed spaces.

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications.

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks.

This textbook offers graduate students a concise introduction to the classic notions of convex optimization.

This book introduces readers to the principles of intelligent decision support systems (IDSS) and how to build them with MiniZinc, a free, open-source constraint programming language.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 2-3, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey.

The book provides a broad introduction to both the theory and the application of optimization with a special emphasis on the elegance, importance, and usefulness of the parametric self-dual simplex method.

This book considers the problem of determining how many barrels of crude oil an oil-producing and exporting country should produce annually for export-along with several other important problems that decision-makers in the crude oil industry face-and discusses procedures for finding optimum solutions for them.

Seaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways.

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices.

This textbook covers the fundamental mechanisms of the Six Sigma philosophy, while showing how this approach is used in solving problems that affect the variability and quality of processes and outcomes in business settings.

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service line.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities.

This book focuses on the adoption of a Dynamic Performance Management (DPM) approach to support the planning and management of urban transportation systems.

This handbook gathers state-of-the-art research on optimization problems in power distribution systems, covering classical problems as well as the challenges introduced by distributed power generation and smart grid resources.

This book reports on an operational management approach to improving bike-sharing systems by compensating for fluctuating demand patterns.

Solving nonsmooth optimization (NSO) problems is critical in many practical applications and real-world modeling systems.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design.

The book presents the proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2019), which took place in Krynica Zdroj, Poland, on October 8-10, 2019.

This book offers an essential review of central theories, current research and applications in the field of numerical representations of ordered structures.

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This book is a further development of the theory of parametric control.

This book presents essential information on modern location science - in a word, all you need to know about location.

This book is dedicated to the systematization and development of models, methods, and algorithms for queuing systems with correlated arrivals.

This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making.

This book aims to revisit the "e;traditional"e; interaction between channel strategies and the marketing mix in a connected world.

"e;Social Simulation for a Digital Society"e; provides a cross-section of state-of-the-art research in social simulation and computational social science.

This volume offers state-of-the-art research in service science and its related research, education and practice areas.

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries.

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2019, held in Madeira, Portugal, in May 2019.

This tutorial introduces readers to several variants of routing problems with profits.

Neural Approximations for Optimal Control and Decision provides a comprehensive methodology for the approximate solution of functional optimization problems using neural networks and other nonlinear approximators where the use of traditional optimal control tools is prohibited by complicating factors like non-Gaussian noise, strong nonlinearities, large dimension of state and control vectors, etc.

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks.

This book develops a general theory of managerial decision making on the basis of a few elementary postulates.

This fourth edition of the book provides readers with a detailed explanation of PLM, enabling them to gain a full understanding and the know-how to implement PLM within their own business environment.

This book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students.

This edited book reports on recent developments in the theory of evolutionary computation, or more generally the domain of randomized search heuristics.

The book discusses the various ways that blockchain technology is changing the future of money, transactions, government, and business.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership (ICCLS).

This book presents a novel approach to the formulation and solution of three classes of problems: the fully fuzzy transportation problem, the fully fuzzy transshipment problem, and fully fuzzy solid transportation problem.

This SpringerBrief bridges the gap between the areas of simulation studies on the one hand, and optimization with natural computing on the other.

This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity.

This book introduces readers to the use of R codes for optimization problems.

This edited collection addresses the question of which capabilities and competencies enable Behavioral Operational Research to provide sustained improvement to decision processes.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.