Operational research

Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and predicted.

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).

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Decision makers in many areas, from industry to engineering and the social sector, face an increasing need to consider multiple, conflicting objectives in their decision processes.

Set-valued optimization is a vibrant and expanding branch of mathematics that deals with optimization problems where the objective map and/or the constraints maps are set-valued maps acting between certain spaces.

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Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy provides guidelines on quality policy, covering investments, management and planning for port and hinterland infrastructure, roads, railways and inland waterway ports.

Due to its societal and economic relevance, Project Management (PM) has become an important discipline and a concept critical to modern organizations, public and private.

This monograph is focused on the derivations of exact distributions of first boundary crossing times of Poisson processes, compound Poisson processes, and more general renewal processes.

The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications.

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies.

Computational Methods in Drug Discovery and Repurposing for Cancer Therapy provides knowledge about ongoing research as well as computational approaches for drug discovery and repurposing for cancer therapy.

Queues and stochastic networks are analyzed in this book with purely probabilistic methods.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

This introduction to the field of hyper-heuristics presents the required foundations and tools and illustrates some of their applications.

Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions.

This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 4th InternationalConference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2015, held inLisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

Progressively explore UI development with Shiny via practical examplesKey FeaturesWrite a Shiny interface in pure HTMLExplore powerful layout functions to make attractive dashboards and other intuitive interfacesGet to grips with Bootstrap and leverage it in your Shiny applicationsBook DescriptionAlthough vanilla Shiny applications look attractive with some layout flexibility, you may still want to have more control over how the interface is laid out to produce a dashboard.

This book presents recent findings and results concerning the solutions of especially finite state-space Markov decision problems and determining Nash equilibria for related stochastic games with average and total expected discounted reward payoffs.

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

This volume presents techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science to analyze problems in business, economics, finance, insurance, and related fields.

This book contains an in-depth treatment of matrix-exponential (ME) distributions and their sub-class of phase-type (PH) distributions.

This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

This is the first book on synthetic data for deep learning, and its breadth of coverage may render this book as the default reference on synthetic data for years to come.

Providing readers with a detailed examination of resilient controls in risk-averse decision, this monograph is aimed toward researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering with a systems-theoretic concentration.

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Interactive Operations Research with Maple: Methods and Models has two ob- jectives: to provide an accelerated introduction to the computer algebra system Maple and, more importantly, to demonstrate Maple's usefulness in modeling and solving a wide range of operations research (OR) problems.

The analysis and control of complex systems have been the main motivation for the emergence of fuzzy set theory since its inception.

Perform Interactive Data Analysis with Smarter Visualizations and Support your Enterprise-wide Analytical Needs Key Features Get a practical demonstration of discovering data for sales, human resources, and more using Qlik Sense Create dynamic dashboards for business intelligence and predictive analytics Create and collaborate comprehensive analytical solutions using Rattle and Qlik Sense Book Description Qlik Sense is powerful and creative visual analytics software that allows users to discover data, explore it, and dig out meaningful insights in order to make a profit and make decisions for your business.

This volume treats the four main categories of Statistical Quality Control: General SQC Methodology, On-line Control including Sampling Inspection and Statistical Process Control, Off-line Control with Data Analysis and Experimental Design, and, fields related to Reliability.

The book "e;TransMath - Innovative Solutions from Mathematical Technology"e; has been conceived as a tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

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

Diverse kinds of knowledge are vital for each organization that would successfully compete today in an international scenario.

This book investigates several duality approaches for vector optimization problems, while also comparing them.

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas.

This book presents selected papers on Business Management and Technology, focusing on recent research in Business, Optimization, Technology, and Global Issues.

This book combines the analytic principles of digital business and data science with business practice and big data.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Conscience is an essential human attribute.

Management of supply chains has been evolving rapidly over the last few years due to the inception of Industry 4.

This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based.

Spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, the writers considered in this first book of the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series make an important contribution to how we think about rationality in managing, leading and working.

This book presents a collection of essays written by leading researchers to honor Roman Slowinski's major scholarly interests and contributions.