Operational research

This book is a volume in honor of Zvi Drezner's 75th birthday.

This book focuses on modelling financial information flows and information-based asset pricing framework.

Operations may not run the world but make the world run!

Do you solve problems in the style of a coyote, competitor or eagle?

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.

All the data was out there to warn us of this impending attack, why didn't we see it?

Investitionsvorhaben legen den Grundstein für die zukünftige Entwicklung eines Unternehmens und sind durch Komplexität, Unsicherheit sowie Langfristigkeit gekennzeichnet.

Negotiations are ubiquitous in business, politics, and private life.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2024, which took place in Porto, Portugal, during June 2-5, 2024.

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a generic term for all methods that help people making decisions according to their preferences, in situations where there is more than one conflicting criterion.

This book covers design of experiments (DoE) applied in production engineering as a combination of manufacturing technology with applied management science.

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

This book is intended as a guide to and manual on modeling complex problems in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM).

This contributed volume guides researchers and practitioners on resource collaborative management of supply chains and manufacturing enterprises within an industrial internet technological environment.

Stochastic models are everywhere.

This book presents interdisciplinary research in software engineering with applications for the social sector.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, and regular corporate scandals, there has been a growing concern with the moral and ethical foundations of business.

An in-depth Oracle Press guide to Oracle Exalytics In-Memory MachineWritten by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, this e-book offers comprehensive coverage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform.

Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand.

The evolution of leadership into a widely accepted concept occurred without any shared understanding and acceptance of its meaning and relevance in contemporary society.

The main focus of this book is on presenting advances in fuzzy statistics, and on proposing a methodology for testing hypotheses in the fuzzy environment based on the estimation of fuzzy confidence intervals, a context in which not only the data but also the hypotheses are considered to be fuzzy.

This book describes a general hybrid metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization labeled Construct, Merge, Solve & Adapt (CMSA).

Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century.

The proceedings volume is the documentary of IEIS 2023, held online on 26-28 July 2023.

Key Concepts in Operations Management is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference.

The book presents the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2020), which took place online on October 27-29, 2020.

Pretty Kitchens' Bag Filling Machine investigates how to calculate the cost of quality.

Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the subject of knowledge management in industrial history.

This volume chronicles the high impact research career of Harvey Greenberg (1940-2018), and in particular, it reviews historical contributions, presents current research projects, and suggests future pursuits.

In these lecture notes which grew out of my lectures at the Honours classes of Honash University, I have attempted to develop queueing and storage problems from a unified viewpoint.

The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing, and strategic decision making.

Thirteen years have passed since the seminal book on knapsack problems by Martello and Toth appeared.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2024, held in June 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2023) held in Harbin, China, during December 16-17, 2023.

Applying Occupational Psychology in the Fire Service: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making provides readers with an overview of the latest research informing the policies, procedures and practices of those working on the ground in the UK Fire Service.

Enables readers to improve risk assessments and how they use them, by grounding their practice on scientific principles.

The 1980s and 1990s have seen a growing interest in research and practice in the use of methodologies within problem contexts characterised by a primary focus on technology, human issues, or power.

This edited book presents the state-of-the-art of applying fuzzy logic to managerial decision-making processes in areas such as fuzzy-based portfolio management, recommender systems, performance assessment and risk analysis, among others.

This book covers a large spectrum of cutting-edge game theory applications in management science in which Professor Georges Zaccour has made significant contributions.

This accessible textbook demonstrates how to recognize, simplify, model and solve optimization problems – and apply these principles to new projects.

Es werden Modelle zur Ermittlung eines optimalen erfolgsorientierten Belohnungssystems analysiert.

This monograph introduces a novel multiset-based conceptual, mathematical and knowledge engineering paradigm, called multigrammatical framework (MGF), used for planning and scheduling in resource-consuming, resource-producing (industrial) and resource-distributing (economical) sociotechnological systems (STS).

The study of complementarity problems is now an interestingmathematical subject with many applications in optimization,game theory, stochastic optimal control, engineering,economics etc.