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Why Customers Would Rather Have a Smartphone than a Car explores some of the fundamental changes in consumer behaviour: Why do we buy less in shops and more on the internet?

VESUVIUS 2000 is an interdisciplinary project aimed at producing a safe and prosperous habitat for the people living around Vesuvius.

This book discusses significant research findings in the field of mathematical modelling, with particular emphasis on important applied-sciences, health, and social issues.

Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for students, researchers or consultants who wish to model, construct, interpret, and use economic performance measures.

The proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making.

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries.

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Gain insight and strategic advice for driving value in your organization with this practical guide that condenses a decade of ServiceNow wisdom into the must-know essentials for impactful deploymentsKey FeaturesFocus on what to do when shaping and leading a ServiceNow journeyExplore strategies for making your projects impactful and valuableGuidance for leaders at every level to maximize return on their investments in ServiceNowBook DescriptionServiceNow is the leading enterprise service management platform that enables the effective management of services in a modern enterprise.

In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation.

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This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries.

This book provides a systematic presentation of the major results in the field of the theory of k-out-of-n systems obtained in recent years and their applications for the reliability assessment of high-altitude unmanned platforms.

Florian Brauner addresses the risk reduction effects of security measures (SecMe) as well as economic and social effects using terrorist threats in public transportation as use case.

Science is made of facts just as a house is made of bricks, but a collection of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa.

This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on August 17-19, 2016.

Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes.

This book bridges the fields of Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Quality models in order to illustrate how digital transformation affects the work of researchers and managers in Supply Chain Quality problems.

Digital Terrain Analysis, Third Edition synthesizes knowledge on methods and applications of digital terrain analysis and geomorphometry in the context of multi-scale problems in soil science, geology, and polar research.

Finance and Risk Management for International Logistics and the Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of financial and risk management tools, activity-based costing, and multi-criteria decision-making, providing comprehensive guidance for those researching and working in logistics and supply chain management.

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems.

The term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice.

Computational Systems Biology: Inference and Modelling provides an introduction to, and overview of, network analysis inference approaches which form the backbone of the model of the complex behavior of biological systems.

Intelligent Data Mining and Fusion Systems in Agriculture presents methods of computational intelligence and data fusion that have applications in agriculture for the non-destructive testing of agricultural products and crop condition monitoring.

The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.

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This book presents the essential concepts of operations research and engineering management in a structured manner.

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Criminal justice systems are complex and difficult to design and operate.

Following careers in the military and in industry, Robert Grattan has devoted himself to the subject of strategy and its related theory through his research into the strategy implementation employed by business, governments and the military.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as both developments of and challenges to the social sciences.

This new Edition of Electronic Commerce is a complete update of the leading graduate level/advanced undergraduate level textbook on the subject.

Increasingly in the public discourse there are references to the knowledge economy, knowledge society, knowledge workers and knowledge organisations.

Genetic Algorithms: Principles and Perspectives: A Guide to GA Theory is a survey of some important theoretical contributions, many of which have been proposed and developed in the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms series of workshops.

This is a book about making choices based on the evaluation of alternatives.

Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "e;emerging industries"e; in the relatively neglected service and "e;creative"e; sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of business development since World War II.

Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: Transforming Scientific Advancement into Innovation compiles the latest applications of remote sensing in agriculture using spaceborne, airborne and drones' geospatial data.

This book examines inventory and production strategies that can reduce unexpected breakdown costs.

This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems.

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

This book explores the impact of industry 4.

Handbook of Mobility Data Mining, Volume Two: Mobility Analytics and Prediction introduces the fundamental technologies of mobile big data mining (MDM), advanced AI methods, and upper-level applications, helping readers comprehensively understand MDM with a bottom-up approach.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007.

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Over the last years, due to intensive competition in the knowledge economy, legal aspects surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights - including litigation and settlement - have continuously gained in importance.