Operational research

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.

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.

Enormous investments in scientific research, technology and innovation are made by governments and private industries.

This book presents the construction and resolution of 50 practical optimization problems and covers an exceptionally wide range, including games-associated problems (Unblock Me, Sudokus), logistical problems, and problems concerning plant distribution, production, operations scheduling, management and resource allocation.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts .

Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades.

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an introduction to the very active field of integer programming and network models.

In the field of genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs), much theory and empirical study has been heaped upon operators and test problems, but problem representation has often been taken as given.

This book broadly explains the requirement to focus on core components in a business and provides a case study of open-pit mining operations throughout the book to understand the management perspective of large organizations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2019, held in Loughborough, UK, in June 2019.

The real world is characterized by deep complexity.

This book showcases state-of-the-art advances in service science and related fields of research, education, and practice.

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market.

This Fourth Edition introduces the latest theory and applications in optimization.

Jürgen Simon untersucht, wie Ergebnisse ambiguer Entscheidungen durch Gruppenentscheidungen und Kommunikation beeinflusst werden.

This book presents the theory and methods of flexible and generalized uncertainty optimization.

This book is addressed to Master and PhD students as well as researchers from academia and industry.

Accounting in Networks is the first book that in a comprehensive way covers the emerging issue of accounting and control in horizontal relations across legally independent organizations.

This book presents innovative breakthroughs in operational excellence that can solve the operational issues of smart factories.

This volume contains the edited texts of the lectures presented at the Workshop on High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization held in Erice, Sicily, at the "e;G.

Customer-Oriented Optimization in Public Transportation develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view.

This book investigates the intuitive application of strategic knowledge arbitrage and serendipity (SKARSE) principles by CEOs in their use of mobile electronic devices.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2023, which held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 19-21, 2023.

This book covers algorithm portfolios, multi-method schemes that harness optimization algorithms into a joint framework to solve optimization problems.

Metaheuristics, in their original definition, are solution methods that orchestrate an interaction between local improvement procedures and higher level strategies to create a process capable of escaping from local optima and performing a robust search of a solution space.

More than forty years have passed since the early attempts to model projects.

The Feature-Driven Method for Structural Optimization details a novel structural optimization method within a CAD framework, integrating structural optimization and feature-based design.

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book is a rigorous but practical presentation of the Bayesian techniques of uncertainty quantification, with applications in R.

Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die Frage, wie ethische Entscheidungen in modernen Organisationen und Unternehmen heute sinnvoll organisiert werden können.

Combinatorial optimisation is a ubiquitous discipline whose usefulness spans vast applications domains.

Assessing Business Excellence presents a strategic framework for business excellence and total quality management and shows how you can be actively involved in continuous improvement by systematically reviewing your business activities and results against holistic business excellence frameworks.

This book examines supply and value chains in African agriculture, providing both a thorough analysis of existing practices and practical business models for future development.

This book explores the different ways in which human-factors engineering influences organizations' and enterprises' well-being and competitiveness.

This book collects selected contributions from the international conference "e;Optimization and Decision Science"e; (ODS2020), which was held online on November 19, 2020, and organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society.

How do humans make choices, both when facing nature and when interacting with one another?

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Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems.

Since I started working in the area of nonlinear programming and, later on, variational inequality problems, I have frequently been surprised to find that many algorithms, however scattered in numerous journals, monographs and books, and described rather differently, are closely related to each other.

Ein Gesicht vermittelt in nur 34 ms konsistent und relativ reliabel nicht nur objektive, sondern auch subjektive Personenmerkmale.

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt alle wesentlichen, in den wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienrichtungen benötigten mathematischen Kenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Linearen Algebra, Analysis und Optimierung.

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship.

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Making decisions is certainly the most important task managers are faced with, and it is often a very difficult one.

This book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Internet of Things (IoT) in Management Science and Operations Research.