Operational research

This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives.

This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing.

Life is about decisions.

Herbert Scarf is a distinguished economist and has made a number of extraordinarily significant contributions to economics, game theory and operations research.

The book is the extended and revised version of the 1st edition and is composed of two main parts: mathematical background and queueing systems with applications.

This book is intended for graduate students in statistics and industrial mathematics, as well as researchers and practitioners in the field.

Proportional Optimization and Fairness is a long-needed attempt to reconcile optimization with apportionment in just-in-time (JIT) sequences and find the common ground in solving problems ranging from sequencing mixed-model just-in-time assembly lines through just-in-time batch production, balancing workloads in event graphs to bandwidth allocation internet gateways and resource allocation in computer operating systems.

This book originates from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Synthesis and Analysis Methods for Safety and Reliability Studies held at Sogesta Conference Centre, Urbino, Italy, 3-14 July 1978.

Quantitative Evaluation of Fire and EMS Mobilization Times presents comprehensive empirical data on fire emergency and EMS call processing and turnout times, and aims to improve the operational benchmarks of NFPA peer consensus standards through a close examination of real-world data.

This book is about the relationship between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and new technologies that have emerged in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Die Beiträge dieses Buches beschäftigen sich in wissenschaftlich anspruchsvoller und verständlicher Form mit praktischen Anwendungen und aktuellen theoretischen Entwicklungen des Operations Research und angrenzender Gebiete wie Künstliche Intelligenz und Wirtschaftsinformatik.

This book analyzes the underlying theoretical principles of multi-objective linear programming problems with multi-choice parameters.

This multi-contributed handbook focuses on the latest workings of IoT (internet of Things) and Big Data.

Motivation Stochastic Linear Programming with recourse represents one of the more widely applicable models for incorporating uncertainty within in which the SLP optimization models.

The world's governments are overwhelmed with climate change, war and unrest, the global financial crisis and poverty but there is a promising invention in Global Action Networks (GANs).

This book presents innovative operations research applications in business, specifically industrial engineering and its sub-disciplines.

Volume 29 of Research in Organizational Change and Development includes ten contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.

Handbook of Mobility Data Mining, Volume One: Data Preprocessing and Visualization 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.

The disjunctive cut principle of Balas and Jeroslow, and the related polyhedral annexation principle of Glover, provide new insights into cutting plane theory.

This book offers the first introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization.

Authored by a leading expert in the field, this book introduces an innovative methodology that harnesses the power of fuzzy logic to enhance decision-making in multi-attribute scenarios.

Convex Analysis may be considered as a refinement of standard calculus, with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities.

This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the nanocrystalline Al based alloys as prepared using high-energy ball milling (HEBM).

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings.

Handbook of Mobility Data Mining: Volume Three: Mobility Data-Driven Applications 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.

'By far the best book I've ever read on the how and why of scaling.

Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions.

The 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering joint event.

This comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization places special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics.

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling.

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The monograph gives a theoretical explanation of observed cooperative behavior in common pool situations.

The Evolution of Immunotherapy Against Tumors: An Historical Approach summarizes the literature concerning the development of the theory of immune surveillance against tumors.

These proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and decision sciences.

The subject of (static) optimization, also called mathematical programming, is one of the most important and widespread branches of modern mathematics, serving as a cornerstone of such scientific subjects as economic analysis, operations research, management sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, statistics, computer science, biology, and social sciences.

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problems.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2019), which was held at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, on September 4-6, 2019, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) the Austrian Operations Research Society (OGOR), and the Swiss Operational Research Society (SOR/ASRO).

This book demonstrates how the conceptual resources of contemporary French philosophy from the early 20thCentury to the present day can be applied to give us new perspectives on business ethics and the ethics of organizations.

How much risk should we take?

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business.

Susanne Jene stellt zwei innovative Konzepte der kooperativen Spieltheorie detailliert vor, den τ-Wert und den bisher im betriebswirtschaftlichen Kontext kaum diskutierten χ-Wert.

The understanding of empirical traf?

During the first week of September 1999, the Second EvoNet Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Computing was held at the Middelheim cam- pus of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

This book delves deeply into the research progress on three-way risk decision for risk management under complex social environment.

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades.

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field.

Taylor leads readers through creativity and how it relates to leadership followed by the five stages of theory behind the idea: 1) preparation, 2) time-off (or incubation), 3) the spark, 4) selection, and 5) elaboration.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.