Operational research

This book explains classic routing and transportation problems and solutions, before offering insights based on successful real-world solutions.

With European Monetary Union well underway, Europe is starting to look at nearby countries and culturally closer continents to define its strategies for the future.

Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making.

This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies.

The book shows how simulation's long history and close ties to industry since the third industrial revolution have led to its growing importance in Industry 4.

Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development sets out the current concerns of Community Operational Research (Community OR for short) and explores new possibilities for its continued development.

Decision Theory has considerably developed in the late 1970's and the 1980's.

Jens Heger stellt ein Verfahren vor, das auf der prioritätsregelbasierten Reihenfolgeplanung aufbaut.

This book is a collection of selected high-quality research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Evidence-Based Management (ICEBM) 2023, held at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, during February 24-25, 2023.

This book systematically studies the stochastic non-cooperative differential game theory of generalized linear Markov jump systems and its application in the field of finance and insurance.

Since its opening in 1978, China has undergone radical change.

Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s.

This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation.

2019 marked the 85th anniversary of Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg's habilitation thesis "e;Marktform und Gleichgewicht,"e; which formed the roots of bilevel optimization.

This book provides a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches to decision making, while also bridging the gap between the theory of how to make good decisions versus how people actually make decisions.

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

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

With businesses facing rapid change in technologies and digital business models, decision makers need to keep apace with the latest thought leadership in order to deliver value to stakeholders.

This book contains the papers given at a workshop organised by the Home Office (England and Wales) on the subject of residential burglary.

This book recapitulates the major developments in Decision Support Systems (DSS) over the last 30 years in order to evaluate the research areas of decision making and in which direction the field should proceed.

Information Technology (IT) - the field that links computer and communications equipment and software - is transforming the way modern business is done.

Marking 94 years since its first appearance, this book provides an annotated translation of Sainte-Lague's seminal monograph Les reseaux (ou graphes), drawing attention to its fundamental principles and ideas.

The objectives of industrial management are: - Implementation of the policy adopted by the owners or the board of directors - Optimum return on investment - Efficient utilization of Men, Machine and Money.

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.

Traces the flow of management ideas from lectures and seminars given by management gurus to organizational practice and beyond.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

This book provides readers with an introduction to m-polar fuzzy graphs and m-polar fuzzy hypergraphs, covering both theories and applications.

Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.

This book aims to present an overview of grey system models for time series modelling and forecasting.

Data Mining in Agriculture represents a comprehensive effort to provide graduate students and researchers with an analytical text on data mining techniques applied to agriculture and environmental related fields.

For students who want to advance their understanding of company logistics and supply chains, the author examines how a number of firms in a supply chain work together to create a flow of products and services that satisfies end customers, whilst enabling all the manufacturing and service companies involved to grow profitably.

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014.

Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems uses a deterministic (sample-path) approach to analyze stochastic systems, primarily queueing systems and more general input-output systems.

As the era of ever expanding markets and ample resources ends, governments and business will have to behave differently.

The foreign exchange market is one of the most complex dynamic markets with the characteristics of high volatility, nonlinearity and irregularity.

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

This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking technique for actual organizations.

Making Big Decisions Better is leading a global movement to equip present and next generation leaders with proven strategy tools that enable agile thinking that ignites stronger, more predictable, direct paths to profit.

This utterly unique how-to supply chain management work is written as mystery to help engage readers.

Programming for Electrical Engineers: MATLAB and Spice introduces beginning engineering students to programming in Matlab and Spice through engaged, problem-based learning and dedicated electrical and computer engineering content.

Multiobjective Scheduling by Genetic Algorithms describes methods for developing multiobjective solutions to common production scheduling equations modeling in the literature as flowshops, job shops and open shops.

Publisher's note: This edition from 2020 is outdated and does not make use of the most recent Tableau features.

Health threats pose significant dangers to humankind and form a major source of human suffering and sorrow.

Gavin Reid presents a systematic analysis of what drives investor-investee relations in venture capital markets.

This book presents a diversity of innovative and impactful research in the field of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) led by women investigators.

This book presents a systematic review of multidimensional normalization methods and addresses problems frequently encountered when using various methods and ways to eliminate them.