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This book offers a comprehensive compilation of research on the evaluation of the most environmentally and socially responsible financial institutions using a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach, with a focus on the principles of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) model.

In revising the Tinbergen Lectures I have expanded and restructured the material in an attempt to make the book more readable and more interesting.

This new 4th edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

This is an introductory level text on stochastic modeling.

Projekte sind hinsichtlich der AufgabensteIlung einzigartig und werden in der Regel einmalig durchgeführt.

This book covers central issues in mitigating supply chain risks from various perspectives.

This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas L.

Since nonsmooth optimization problems arise in a diverse range of real-world applications, the potential impact of efficient methods for solving such problems is undeniable.

A guide to advances in machine learning for financial professionals, with working Python codeKey FeaturesExplore advances in machine learning and how to put them to work in financial industriesClear explanation and expert discussion of how machine learning works, with an emphasis on financial applicationsDeep coverage of advanced machine learning approaches including neural networks, GANs, and reinforcement learningBook DescriptionMachine Learning for Finance explores new advances in machine learning and shows how they can be applied across the financial sector, including in insurance, transactions, and lending.

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough.

This interdisciplinary reference and guide provides an introduction to modeling methodologies and models which form the starting point for deriving efficient and effective solution techniques, and presents a series of case studies that demonstrate how heuristic and analytical approaches may be used to solve large and complex problems.

In 2009 three consultants, green to the consulting industry were tasked with a new challenge, the activation and licensing of a new, 100 bed hospital, in only 90 days.

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This book presents a new search paradigm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities.

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Formal Design Theory (PDT) is a mathematical theory of design.

Based on the shared journey of two researchers, this book explores enhancing algorithms for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem.

Dieses aus drei Einzelbänden bestehende Werk bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gebiet des Operations Research (OR).

Purchasing and Supply Management includes the latest management, procurement, and negotiation techniques and the authors have taken great care to integrate the impact of global commerce on the buyers job.

This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined operational plan when various disruptions prevent the original plan from being executed smoothly.

Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003.

This collection of articles aspires to be a permanent record of ideas which are likely to become important determinants in the future of management sciences.

This book explains 'what goes on in a manufacturing company as a product goes through its lifecycle'.

Most successful companies have operations management at their heart.

This book presents 27 methods of the Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM), which are not discussed in the existing books, nor studied in details, using more applications.

Efficiency and productivity improvement are imperative for businesses to remain competitive in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.

This book collects selected presentations of the Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, which took place at the Department of Ma- ematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg (or, Gothenburg), Sweden, September 9-11, 1998.

This book provides step-by-step descriptions of how to formulate numerical problems and develops techniques for solving them.

This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge as well as offers significant theoretical contributions and policy implications.

This textbook offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Optimization Programming Language (OPL).

This work reviews the most important results regarding the use of the a-point in Scheduling Theory.

In this landmark set of papers, experts from around the world present the latest and most promising approaches to both the theory and practice of effective environmental management.

Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: Transforming Scientific Advancement into Innovation compiles the latest applications of remote sensing in agriculture using spaceborne, airborne and drones' geospatial data.

The Second Edition of this book presents the state of the art in this important field.

The Presto community has mushroomed since its origins at Facebook in 2012.

Graphics are great for exploring data, but how can they be used for looking at the large datasets that are commonplace to-day?

A compact guide to knowledge management, this book makes the subject accessible without oversimplifying it.

The development of U.

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.

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This study has grown out of a part of the author's thesis "e;Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior"e; submitted to the University of Western Australia (1964) and a course on Queueing Theory given to graduate students in the Operations Research Group of Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.

This book introduces impact-driven research paths in computer science, information systems and cybersecurity with practical insights, effective instructions, and examples.

This volume consists of 14 contributed chapters written by leading experts, offering in-depth discussions of the mathematical modeling and algorithmic aspects for tackling a range of space engineering applications.