Management and management techniques

Each year billions of dollars are being spent to develop, manufacture, and operate transportation systems such as aircraft, ships, trains, and motor vehicles throughout the world.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006.

"e;The Maintenance Management Framework"e; describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; concentrating specifically on modern modelling tools (deterministic and empirical) for maintenance planning and scheduling.

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in knowledge.

Mass customization is an emerging paradigm gathering growing interest in many industrial fields.

Few would deny that small entrepreneurial firms play an important economic and social role.

eProcurement in Healthcare is a book that aggregates 5 years of experience of three successive R and D projects (ELCH, GetTogether, GROPIS) covering technical and organizational issues of eProcurement.

Recent worldwide advances in manufacturing technologies led to a metamorphism in the industry.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

In recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors.

Modelling is an activity that is found in every domain of research and science, and takes place even when we are not aware of it.

In the early years of the 21st Century, as a result of many changes, it has become possible for the first time for tens of thousands of companies to offer manufactured products to customers across six continents.

Engineers and scientists often need to sell an innovative idea for a new product or a new product improvement to top management.

Presented here are 88 refereed papers given at the 35th MATADOR Conference held at the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2007.

Since the 1992 Rio summit, corporate environmental responsibility has grown beyond complying with increasingly stringent environmental regulation and taking up proactive initiatives.

This book is a sequel to The Practice of Machine Design, and The Practice of Machine Design, Book 3 - Learning from Failure.

Purchasers of manufactured goods need assurance that they will perform well over their expected life.

Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) are computer-based systems that support individual or organisational decision-making processes.

Manufacturing systems work with scarce resources in dynamic environments.

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets.

Enterprise Modelling (EM) methods are frequently used by entrepreneurs as an analysis tool for describing and redesigning their businesses.

In many engineering design and optimization problems, the presence of uncertainty in the data is a critical issue.

Composite decisions consist of subdecisions and correspond to a composite system.

Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a new paradigm for product manufacturing, enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way.

vi The process is important!

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance.

It is said that six sigma methods are vital to survive, let alone thrive, in today's competitive markets, but what are these methods and how or when do we use them?

The book aims to present a multi-dimensional view on the blockchain-driven supply chain management and its linkage with open innovation, digital technologies, supply chain sustainability, mapping, visibility, and resilience.

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are manifesting in increasingly sophisticated technologies and systems contributing to the digital transformation of organizations.

This book introduces the mathematical foundations of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for decision-making problems with ambiguous uncertainties and applies them to tackle the critical challenge of energy storage sizing in renewable-integrated power systems, providing readers with an efficient and reliable approach to analyze and design real-world energy systems with uncertainties.

Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on MMESE are an academic showcase of the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, introducing readers to the top research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

The world's best negotiators have moved beyond the conventional wisdom by utilising cutting-edge studies and real-world results.

Is Apple conscious?

';The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.

This book explores recent developments and exciting challenges in operations research and mathematical optimization.

When people get together, there is often one stand-out individual who others turn to for answers.

After a fairly low threshold, income and material wealth have no measurable effect on happiness.

Designed as a self-contained text, this book covers a wide spectrum of topics on portfolio theory.

This book delves into the intricacies of encouraging African states' participation in a Multilateral Investment Court (MIC), set against the backdrop of their experiences with international investment agreements and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system.

Derivative trading?

This edited book presents a comprehensive analysis of the multidimensional aspects associated with decision making in renewable energy investment projects.

This book integrates for readers three areas of knowledge, pertaining to risk-based project decision making: project risk management (PRM), complexity theory, and decision-making under deep uncertainty (DMDU).

This book includes in-depth discussions on practical aspects of digitalisation of a supply chains and covers a vary array of actionable digitisation tools.

This book delves into the intricacies of encouraging African states' participation in a Multilateral Investment Court (MIC), set against the backdrop of their experiences with international investment agreements and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system.

This book offers a current perspective on Artificial Intelligence in the context of an ever-changing and growing technological revolution in business management.