Operational research

The 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering creates an international forum where scientific and industrial contributions of computer-aided techniques are presented with applications in process modeling and simulation, process synthesis and design, operation, and process optimization.

This book explores discrete-time dynamic optimization and provides a detailed introduction to both deterministic and stochastic models.

Regina Schlindwein analysiert die Erstellung von Dienstleistungen aus produktionstheoretischer Sicht und entwickelt neue Methoden zur Effizienzmessung, die den Einfluss externer Faktoren berücksichtigen.

Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

In scheduling theory, the models that have attracted considerable attention during the last two decades allow the processing times to be variable, i.

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of industrial consultancy on a variety of issues and aspects including operations and services.

Covid-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century.

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.

Peter Drucker is arguably the world's most influential management writer, but his contributions as a social theorist and philosopher are also notable.

Blockchain, a technology originally developed for cryptocurrency, has evolved into a versatile tool capable of driving significant change across industries and communities.

The book addresses optimization in the petroleum industry from a practical, large-scale-application-oriented point of view.

Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization.

Managers are often under great pressure to improve the performance of their organizations.

Geoinformatics for Geosciences: Advanced Geospatial Analysis using RS, GIS and Soft Computing is a comprehensive guide to the methodologies and techniques that can be used in Earth observation data assessments, geospatial analysis, and soft computing in the geosciences.

This book highlights recent advances in the development of effective modeling and solution approaches to enhance the performance of military logistics.

Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einführung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primär für Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht.

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics.

This book covers sustainable development in smart society's 5.

Cyber-solutions to real-world business problems Artificial Intelligence in Practice is a fascinating look into how companies use AI and machine learning to solve problems.

For over a decade, there has been an increasing interest in the use of supply chain methods to improve performance across the entire business enterprise.

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.

This textbook is a comprehensive guide to applying design science methodology to solve field problems within and between organizations.

This book presents the underlying theory, model development, and applications of network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in a systematic way.

The idea of this book came to us in October 2002 at the international conference "e;Production systems design, supply chain management and logistics"e; (Miedzyzdroje, Poland).

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear programming, featuring a broad range of applications and solution methods in the field of continuous optimization.

Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the 'Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age' conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos's 60th birthday.

This book covers the proceedings from the 2016 International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, and reflects current research results of chaos and complexity studies and their applications in various fields.

The goal of this book is to publish the latest mathematical techniques, research, and developments in engineering.

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks.

Cost Analysis is an emerging sub-discipline of Economics and Operations Research.

This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots.

This book studies the urban logistics system from the perspective of reliability, based on the theory of urban logistics and system reliability, with the research of urban logistics system reliability as the main line, with matter element analysis and ant colony algorithm as the main research tools.

One of the most well-known of all network optimization problems is the shortest path problem, where a shortest connection between two locations in a road network is to be found.

This second edition of a pioneering technical work in biomedical informatics provides a very readable treatment of the deep computational ideas at the foundation of the field.

This volume is the second (II) of four under the main themes of Digitizing Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

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

Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment.

Computational Retinal Image Analysis: Tools, Applications and Perspectives gives an overview of contemporary retinal image analysis (RIA) in the context of healthcare informatics and artificial intelligence.

In the foreword to Supply Chain Structures, Professor Paul Zipkin notes three global changes that have enabled the recent vast developments in the field of supply chains.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

Servant Leader Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive conceptual framework based on a dignity enhancing stewardship model that integrates and balances mission achievement with motive, means and ends integrity from both a line manager and human resource department perspective.

This monograph represents a historic breakthrough in the field of linear programming (LP)since George Dantzig first discovered the simplex method in 1947.