Operational research

Model Management and Analytics for Large Scale Systems covers the use of models and related artefacts (such as metamodels and model transformations) as central elements for tackling the complexity of building systems and managing data.

The concept of fuzziness, inspired by Zadeh (1965), brings us fruitful results when it is applied to problems in decision making.

This book extends our understanding of how different cross- functional business and management disciplines, such as innovation and entrepreneurship, strategic management, marketing and HRM, individually and collectively underpin innovation in business management.

Many of the issues on which meaningful research is founded are seldom discussed; for example, the role of everyday experience, diversity and coherence of meaning in the world, the meaningfulness and wider mandate of research, the very nature and validity of theoretical thought, and the deep presuppositions of philosophy and how they undermine the success of research.

This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases.

Creating Value in Financial Services is a compilation of state-of-the-art views of leading academics and practitioners on how financial service firms can succeed in today's competitive environment.

Success in the continuous process industries depends upon the ability to adapt to the demands of global supply chains in real-time.

This volume provides a unique collection of mathematical tools and industrial case studies in digital manufacturing.

In the world of digital business, the line between strategy and tactics is blurring.

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research.

This book, now in its second edition, provides a valuable compendium of problems as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and practitioners of operations research and management science.

This proceedings book presents selected contributions from the XVIII Congress of APDIO (the Portuguese Association of Operational Research) held in Valenca on June 28-30, 2017.

The importance of having ef cient and effective methods for data mining and kn- ledge discovery (DM&KD), to which the present book is devoted, grows every day and numerous such methods have been developed in recent decades.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts .

In Consequentialism Reconsidered, Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism.

Value aggregation to goods and services is unbelievably important to the balance of trade of modern nations, yet it receives minute attention by economists and policy-makers alike.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2022), which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, on September 6-9, 2022.

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The book contains selected contributions from the 48th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2022) held in Bergamo, Italy, July 2022.

Now in its sixth edition, Ivan Png's Managerial Economics has been extensively revised with an introductory chapter emphasizing decision-making and behavioral biases, intensive application to current business and economic issues including technology, globalization, and pandemics, a closing chapter highlighting business responses to climate change, a streamlined presentation focusing on the economics that managers need to know.

The authors stress the relative simplicity, efficiency, flexibility of use, and suitability of various approaches used to solve difficult optimization problems.

Leadership is demanding and challenging.

Much has been said and written about the 'financial tsunami' and subsequent economic dislocation that occurred in the opening decade of the 21st Century.

A Comprehensive Guide to Construction Supply Chain ManagementDevelop a highly efficient construction supply chain management (CSCM) solution that decreases risk and increases profitability.

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

In the past two decades, breakthroughs in computer technology have made a tremendous impact on optimization.

Linear programming attracted the interest of mathematicians during and after World War II when the first computers were constructed and methods for solving large linear programming problems were sought in connection with specific practical problems-for example, providing logistical support for the U.

Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world.

Ziel des Buches ist es, Ingenieuren oder Naturwissenschaftlern die Programmierung als Schlüsselqualifikation mit zahlreichen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten vorzustellen.

This volume explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics, collaboration, and decision support with an emphasis on business intelligence and social media.

This textbook provides researchers, post-graduate students, and practitioners with a systematic framework for coping with uncertainty when making facility location decisions.

Das vorliegende Buch deckt den Stoff der Vorlesung Wirtschaftsmathematik im Grund­ studium einschließlich der Finanzmathematik ab.

This graduate-level text covers modeling, programming and analysis of simulation experiments and provides a rigorous treatment of the foundations of simulation and why it works.

Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization reviews and discusses recent advances in the development of methods and algorithms for nonlinear optimization and its applications, focusing on the large-dimensional case, the current forefront of much research.

Learn a modern approach to data analysis using Python to harness the power of programming and AI across your data.

This book examines practically useful management and people skills, and looks at competencies from the micro, meso, and macro- lens.

Thecontentofthisbookismotivatedbytherecentchangesinglobalmarketsandthe availability of new transportation services.

This book examines Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling (MCDM) methodologies and facilitates diverse ways for strategic decision-making in a variety of practical applications.

This book introduces readers to essential technology assessment and forecasting tools, demonstrating their use on the basis of multiple cases.

It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dealt with in economic theory can be formulated as problems in optimization theory.

This book deals with the emergence of intellectual monopolies.

The general theory of stochastic processes and the more specialized theory of Markov processes evolved enormously in the second half of the last century.

This book proposes a wealth-additive scheme of managing and maximizing (win-win and sharing) the marginal value (eco-entropy) of artifacts by humanizing the artifacts' enterprise and their economics with nature.

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The Feature-Driven Method for Structural Optimization details a novel structural optimization method within a CAD framework, integrating structural optimization and feature-based design.