Operational research

Learn to distribute network traffic, optimize application delivery, and defend network-level threats.

This book encompasses the study of hybrid switching di usion processes and their applications.

This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science.

The Handbook of Evaluation Methods for Health Informatics provides a complete compendium of methods for evaluation of IT-based systems and solutions within healthcare.

This book reports over a decade's worth of research on the development of empirical response models that have important uses for generating marketing knowledge and improving marketing decisions.

MS Excel is one of the most powerful tools available to a business manager.

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 book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way.

Vulnerability Analysis for Transportation Networks provides an integrated framework for understanding and addressing how transportation networks across all modes perform when parts of the network fail or are substantially degraded, such as extreme weather events, natural disasters, road crashes, congestion incidents or road repair.

Fast ein Krimi … Warum sind etablierte Firmen, die es geschafft haben, eine Innovationsfähigkeit aufzubauen, plötzlich nicht mehr innovativ?

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

In einer sich schnell wandelnden Geschäftswelt ist Klarheit entscheidend.

This book provides the current status of research on the application of OR methods to solve emerging and relevant operations management problems.

This book presents expert descriptions of the successful application of operations research in both the private and the public sector, including in logistics, transportation, product design, production planning and scheduling, and areas of social interest.

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies.

Globalisation of the world's economy is leading to rapid change and uncertainties in society, politics and markets.

This book assesses potential developments of terrorism and ways to prevent it-the growing threats as new technologies become available - and how the same new technologies may help trap those with potential mal-intent.

This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.

This book illustrates effective decision-making in complex socio-economic systems utilising system dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches.

This book covers game-theoretic approaches to analyzing policies for environmental regulation in the power sector.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

This book discusses how to build optimization tools able to generate better future studies.

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

This book assesses potential developments of terrorism and ways to prevent it-the growing threats as new technologies become available - and how the same new technologies may help trap those with potential mal-intent.

This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, XX International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, and International IIE Conference 2014, hosted by ADINGOR, ABEPRO and the IIE, whose mission is to promote links between researchers and practitioners from different branches, to enhance an interdisciplinary perspective of industrial engineering and management.

Morphometry of the Human Lung considers the developments in understanding the quantitative anatomy of the lung, and in the correlation of anatomy with physiology.

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance.

Based on the 2018 International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM) conference that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, this proceedings volume is the first of two focusing on mathematical applications in digital transformation.

The stability analysis of stochastic models for telecommunication systems is an intensively studied topic.

Der Verfasser setzt sich mit dem Standardproblem eindimensionalen Zuschneidens auseinander, und hier im besonderen mit Fragen der Vorteilhaftigkeit und der Beurteilung von Lösungsverfahren sowohl für den relaxierten als auch für den ganzzahligen Fall.

This book presents the latest trends and developments in multimodal optimization and niching techniques.

Continuous casting and hot strip milling are two successive production steps in the steel industry.

This work encapsulates the essential developments in this field into a single resource, as well as to set an agenda for further development in the field.

Clinical Engineering: A Handbook for Clinical and Biomedical Engineers, Second Edition, helps professionals and students in clinical engineering successfully deploy medical technologies.

Ontology, or the nature of being, has been a focal area of study in the philosophical disciplines for a long time.

Fuzzy modeling has become one of the most productive and successful results of fuzzy logic.

In 2010 Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer published their seminal work on Integral Research and Innovation, whereby they identified the four R's; relational and renewal, reason and realization based research paths that altogether encompass the major qualitative research methods and methodologies.

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

Collateral - generally defined as an asset used to provide security for a lender's loan - is an important feature of credit contracts and all the available evidence suggests that its use is getting more pervasive.

This book focuses on the applications of convex optimization and highlights several topics, including support vector machines, parameter estimation, norm approximation and regularization, semi-definite programming problems, convex relaxation, and geometric problems.

This chapter describes a study conducted at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, in their School of Business.

This textbook provides an introduction to the use and understanding of optimization and modeling for upper-level undergraduate students in engineering and mathematics.

First published in 1971, this collection of fourteen contemporaneous European research studies on managerial backgrounds and on the patterns, roles, and evolution of managerial careers examine managerial motivations in a broader context than the traditional analysis of psychological qualities.

The book includes the latest research advances and cutting-edge analyses of real case studies in the disciplines of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management from diverse international contexts.