Operational research

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures.

Leverage the power of Tableau to get actionable business insights and make better business decisionsKey FeaturesExplore all the new features of Tableau 2018.

Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects of a problem: (1) a precise definition of the constraints that define the problem to be solved and (2) the algorithms and heuristics enabling the selection of decisions to solve the problem.

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.

This publication is in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and is the result of a combined research and review process carried out by the three Editors who belongs to the University of Ferrara, Italy, the University of Buckingham, UK and Swansea University, UK.

Efficiently deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on a cloudKey FeaturesDeploy highly scalable applications with Kubernetes on AzureLeverage AKS to deploy, manage, and operations of KubernetesGain best practices from this guide to increase efficiency of container orchestration service on CloudBook DescriptionMicrosoft is now one of the most significant contributors to Kubernetes open source projects.

Logistics and supply chain management is facing disruptive economic, technological and climate change developments that require new strategies.

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order.

Due to the limited number of digits or bits per storage location in electronic computers, round-off errors arise during arithmetic operations.

This book comprehensively assesses the growing importance of project data for project scheduling, risk analysis and control.

Focusing on the business implications of green innovation, this book describes the sheer impact, spread, and opportunities arising every day, and how business leaders can implement green innovative practices today to realize tangible as well as intangible business advantages in the future.

This is the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM) held from July 21-23, 2015 at Karlsruhe, Germany.

This book presents for the first time a methodology that combines the power of a modelling formalism such as colored petri nets with the flexibility of a discrete event program such as SIMIO.

Technological developments in recent years have been tremendous.

In today's increasingly complex and uncertain business environment, financial analysis is yet more critical to business managers who tackle problems of an economic or business nature.

This book provides students with an in-depth understanding of the concepts, frameworks and processes used to analyze and present visual data for better decision-making.

This volume brings forth a set of selected papers from the Conference on Modeling Land Sattle Systems for Military Planning.

Applications of Management Science presents current studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems.

The Science of Service Systems intends to stimulate discussion and understanding by presenting theory-based research with actionable results.

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

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

Computing has become essential for the modeling, analysis, and optimization of systems.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the ranking methods for interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, multi-criteria decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and group decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations.

This book, with invaluable contributions of Professor Franz Wotawa in chapters 5 and 7, presents the potential use and implementation of intelligent techniques in decision making processes involved in organizations and companies.

This book contains selected papers from the symposium "e;Operations Research 2010"e; which was held from September 1-3, 2010 at the "e;Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen"e;, Germany.

Waiting in lines is a staple of everyday human life.

Christoph Johannes untersucht Fragestellungen der energieorientierten Losgrößen- und Reihenfolgeplanung bei zeitabhängigen Energiepreisen.

Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance.

"e;Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical Systems"e; presents the foundations and practical application of multi-objective optimization methods to Vehicle Design Problems with an extensive overview of examples.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is the study of methods and procedures by which concerns about multiple conflicting criteria can be formally incorporated into the management planning process.

Most researchers in organization and management studies stick to two or three traditional research methods like surveys and interviews.

This book, for the first time, proposes the complex systems management theory based on the integration of complex systems theory and management science to solve the overall complexity problem that cannot be dealt with by the reductionism approach.

This book presents solutions to the general problem of single period portfolio optimization.

In contrast to widespread assessments that family enterprises lack sufficient resources and capabilities to go global, many family companies are competing successfully in an increasingly globalized business environment.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2020, which was planned to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 7-11, 2020.

Das Lehrbuch ist aus den Lehrveranstaltungen des Verfassers für das Grund- und Hauptstudium für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler an der Universität Bielefeld hervorgegangen.

This book analyses the use of modelling in charting the survival of financial and industrial enterprises.

This textbook teaches methods of data analytics for technical reliability analyses and risk prognosis on the basis of probabilistics, statistics and modelling.

This book is intended as a text covering the central concepts and techniques of Competitive Markov Decision Processes.

Caspases as Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy discusses the recent developments on targeted therapies for cancer using caspases.

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

This book focuses on planning and scheduling applications.

Current Trends and Advances in Computer-Aided Intelligent Environmental Data Engineering merges computer engineering and environmental engineering.