Operational research

Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather provides a thorough and accessible presentation of machine learning techniques that can be employed by space weather professionals.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

This book discusses an emerging field of decision science that focuses on business processes and systems used to extract knowledge from large volumes of data to provide significant insights for crucial decisions in critical situations.

In mathematical modeling of processes occurring in logistics, management science, operations research, networks, mathematical finance, medicine, and control theory, one often encounters optimization problems involving more than one objective function so that Multiobjective Optimization (or Vector Optimization, initiated by W.

Although transportation economists have advocated the tolling of urban streets as a mechanism for controlling congestion and managing travel demands for over 50 years, it is only recently that this idea has become practical.

This book provides a broad coverage of the recent advances in robustness analysis in decision aiding, optimization, and analytics.

While simulation has a vast area of application, this textbook focuses on the use of simulation to analyse business processes.

This second volume moves beyond a general introduction to product lifecycle management (PLM) and its principal elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation).

This book presents new theory and empirical studies on the roles of cognitive workload and fatigue on repeated financial decisions.

This book introduces readers to the novel concept of spherical fuzzy sets, showing how these sets can be applied in practice to solve various decision-making problems.

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

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This book is a tribute to Prof.

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures.

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

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management.

This book focuses on the analytic principles of business practice and big data.

An analysis of the impact of inward investment on the competitiveness of indigenous firms, Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers draws on evidence from the UK and Italian manufacturing sectors to show how foreign presence may generate both virtuous and vicious circles of development according to a number of interrelated factors.

Hyperthinking is predicated on the assumption that the single most important skill required to help you and your organization thrive in the age of perpetual change, digital communications and networks is the mind-set of individuals.

This Festschrift honors George Samuel Fishman, one of the founders of the eld of computer simulation and a leader of the disciplines of operations research and the management sciences for the past ve decades, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

The book discusses the study and implementation of controlling in the modern enterprise from the perspective of Industry 4.

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline.

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.

Introductory courses in combinatorial optimization are popular at the upper undergraduate/graduate levels in computer science, industrial engineering, and business management/OR, owed to its wide applications in these fields.

Analysis, assessment, and data management are core competencies for operation research analysts.

Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply chains.

Dieses Lehrbuch ermöglicht dem Leser einen leichten Einstieg in die Matrixrechnung.

This addition to the ISOR series introduces complementarity models in a straightforward and approachable manner and uses them to carry out an in-depth analysis of energy markets, including formulation issues and solution techniques.

This book introduces readers to benchmarking techniques in the stochastic environment, primarily stochastic data envelopment analysis (DEA), and provides stochastic models in DEA for the possibility of variations in inputs and outputs.

This book is a further development of the theory of parametric control.

This research monograph summarizes a line of research that maps certain classical problems of discrete mathematics and operations research - such as the Hamiltonian Cycle and the Travelling Salesman Problems - into convex domains where continuum analysis can be carried out.

Reactive Search and Intelligent Optimization is an excellent introduction to the main principles of reactive search, as well as an attempt to develop some fresh intuition for the approaches.

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Sooner or later, people develop a fairly stable set of ways for thinking, judging and responding; this is called one's habitual domain.

Fuzzy sets were introduced by Zadeh (1965) as a means of representing and manipulating data that was not precise, but rather fuzzy.

The book develops manufacturing concepts and applications beyond physical production and towards a wider manufacturing value chain incorporating external stakeholders that include suppliers of raw materials and parts, customers, collaborating manufacturing companies, manufacturing service providers, and environmental organisations.

Fashion is a glamorous industry, one of beauty, money, fame, and huge profits.

This thesis is a theoretical study of the optimal dynamic policies of a, to some extent, slowly adjusting firm that faces an exogeneously given technological progress and an exogeneously given business cycle.

This handbook presents workplace training, employee development, and organizational learning from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology.

The book introduces readers to some of the latest advances in and approaches to decision-making methods based on thermodynamic characters and hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations.

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the cross-entropy (CE) method.

This book includes high quality research papers submitted at the 2022 "e;Four Session (ICFIE, ICORG, GDORS, CGHMORS) Celebration"e; Joint International Conference held on December 28, 2022 and the online meeting of the Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the China Operations Research Society on September 17, 2022.

Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis: Recent Advances and Challenges presents the latest developments in transport simulation, including dynamic network simulation and micro-simulation of people's movement in an urban area.

This focuses on the developing field of building probability models with the power of symbolic algebra systems.

This handbook provides an innovative, thorough overview of service management.

This book introduces readers to multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) interventions used in complex situations.

Christoph Johannes untersucht Fragestellungen der energieorientierten Losgrößen- und Reihenfolgeplanung bei zeitabhängigen Energiepreisen.