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This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike.

Search Methodologies is a tutorial survey of the methodologies that are at the confluence of several fields: Computer Science, Mathematics and Operations Research.

This book addresses the intellectual foundations, function, modeling approaches and complexity of cellular automata; explores cellular automata in combination with genetic algorithms, neural networks and agents; and discusses the applications of cellular automata in economics, traffic and the spread of disease.

Based on the "e;Sixth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Piraeus, Greece, July 2023), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on disasters either caused by natural phenomena or human activities.

A perishable item is one that has constant utility up until an expiration date (which may be known or uncertain), at which point the utility drops to zero.

Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full understanding of Chinese business success.

This book deals mainly with the study of convex functions and their behavior from the point of view of stability with respect to perturbations.

Advances in Computational Methods and Modelling in Science and Engineering explores the application of computational techniques and modeling approaches in science and engineering, providing practical knowledge and skills for tackling complex problems using numerical simulations and data analysis.

This new 4th edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

Business Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems.

Unterne1unen sind in hohem Maße auf Datenmaterial angewiesen, durch das sie über Zustände und Entwicklungen innerhalb und außerhalb des Unternehmens in­ formiert werden.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2023, held during May 30 - June 1, 2023.

Build reporting applications and dashboards using the different MicroStrategy objectsKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of MicroStrategyUse MicroStrategy to get actionable insights from your business dataCreate visualizations and build intuitive dashboards and reportsBook DescriptionMicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application.

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader who is interested in applications of fuzzy set theory, in the first place with a text to which he or she can refer for the basic theoretical ideas, concepts and techniques in this field and in the second place with a vast and up to date account of the literature.

LEVERAGE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MAXIMUM PROFITDo you have a global supply chain strategy designed for the long run?

The chapters in this volume explore how various methods from game theory can be utilized to optimize security and risk-management strategies.

This book on Applied Operations Research and Financial Modelling in Energy (AORFME) presents several applications of operations research (OR) and financial modelling.

The present book deals with canonical factorization problems for di?

This book aims to stimulate debate in the growing and highly controversial area of measuring scholarly work.

Thisbook provides readers with a timely and comprehensive yet concise view on the field of fuzzy logic and its real-world applications.

This monograph deals with various classes of deterministic and stochastic continuous time optimal control problems that are defined over unbounded time intervals.

Fixed Point Optimization Algorithms and Their Applications discusses how the relationship between fixed point algorithms and optimization problems is connected and demonstrates hands-on applications of the algorithms in fields such as image restoration, signal recovery, and machine learning.

This volume is the second (II) of four under the main themes of Digitizing Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

This book covers a selection of fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control.

Web-Scale Discovery Services: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses summarizes and presents the state-of-the-art in WSDS.

Matrizen und Vektoren bilden eine wesentliche Grundlage vieler quantitativer Modelle und Methoden.

The area of virtual organizations, and industrial virtual enterprises in particular, is attracting a large and growing interest both in terms of the research and development and the implementation of new business practices.

This comprehensive volume details the importance of integrating project management-related activities into the organizational hierarchy or network.

Why do some corporate superstars collapse dramatically, while others survive and prosper over many decades?

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field.

This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way.

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain.

This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

Kollektive Entscheidungen, also Entscheidungen einer Gruppe von Personen für die Gruppe, spielen in allen Bereichen menschlichen Zusammenlebens eine wichtige Rolle.

Learning plays a fundamental role in the production planning and growth of all organizations.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

The Advanced Research Institute (ARI) on "e;The Application of Systems Science to Energy Policy Planning"e; was held under the auspices of the NATO Special Programme Panel on Systems Science in collaboration with the National Center for Analysis of Energy Sys- tems, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, as a part of the NATO Science Committee's continuous effort to promote the advancement of science through international cooperation.

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.

Evidence shows that organizations with both a CEO and a team involved in sourcing strategy and supplier configuration make more effective decisions.

This book discusses an emerging area in computer science, IT and management, i.

The study of the theory of games was started in Von Neumann (1928), but the development of the theory of games was accelerated after the publication of the classical book "e;Theory of games and economic behavior"e; by Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944).

This volume consists of essays from a colloquium about "e;philosophy of economics"e; held at the*University of l1unich in July, 1981.

The financial results of any manufacturing company can be dramatically impacted by the repetitive decisions required to control a complex production network be it a network of machines in a factory; a network of factories in a company; or a network of companies in a supply chain.