Operational research

Equilibrium is a concept used in operations research and economics to understand the interplay of factors and problems arising from competitive systems in the economic world.

Despite significant achievements, thediscipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handlemany practical real-world challenges.

The logic of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) is im- plemented in most commercial production planning software tools and is commonly accepted by practitioners.

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades.

The idea for this book came about one Friday afternoon towards the end of a summer term.

Menschen sind, egal ob im privaten oder im beruflichen Bereich mehr oder weniger ständig damit konfrontiert, Entscheidungen treffen zu müssen und es ist evident, dass es für Entscheidungsträger von großem Vorteil wäre, wenn es gelingen könnte, möglichst viele ‚gute‘ und möglichst wenige Fehlentscheidung zu treffen.

Digitalisation and Organisation Design aims to address key topics related to organisation design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organisational context, particularly in Asia.

This book deals with an often-neglected feature of location problems, namely uncertainty, by combining two related fields: location theory and optimization.

This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models.

The contributions in this volume cover a broad range of topics including maximum cliques, graph coloring, data mining, brain networks, Steiner forest, logistic and supply chain networks.

Often, real-world problems modeled by Markov decision processes (MDPs) are difficult to solve in practise because of the curse of dimensionality.

This text is an introduction to Operations Management.

Contains a wealth of information previously scattered in research journals, conference proceedings and technical reports.

Matthias Hundt entwickelt ein Realoptionsmodell auf Basis Gemischt-Ganzzahlig-Linearer-Programmierung, das bi-direktional mit einem fundamentalen Elektrizitätsmarktmodell gekoppelt ist.

The idea of this book came to us in October 2002 at the international conference "e;Production systems design, supply chain management and logistics"e; (Miedzyzdroje, Poland).

Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit können mit dem üblichen Erwartungsnutzenkonzept häufig nicht angemessen modelliert werden, da die zugrunde liegenden Informationen den wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Anforderungen nicht genügen.

This work aims to increase the service level and to reduce the inventory costs by combining the forecast and inventory model into one consistent forecast-based inventory model.

This book, compiles, presents, and explains the most important meta-heuristic and evolutionary optimization algorithms whose successful performance has been proven in different fields of engineering, and it includes application of these algorithms to important engineering optimization problems.

In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world.

This book presents the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM2013) held from November 7 to 9, 2013 at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and organized by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management, Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) and Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA).

This book places particular emphasis on issues of model quality and ideas of model testing and validation.

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, computer science, and operational research.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

Design, develop, and master efficient Power BI solutions for impactful business insightsKey FeaturesGet to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI Combine data from multiple sources, create visuals, and publish reports across platformsUnderstand Power BI concepts with real-world use casesBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide gets you started with business intelligence by showing you how to install the Power BI toolset, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations that make your data come to life.

Become an expert in implementing Azure Functions to work seamlessly with your serverless applicationsKey FeaturesDevelop scalable, robust multi-tier apps without worrying about infrastructure needsDeploy and manage cost-effective and highly available serverless apps using Azure FunctionsAccelerate enterprise-level application development by seamlessly integrating different cloud services with Azure FunctionsBook DescriptionApplication development has evolved from traditional monolithic app development to using serverless options and microservices.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to decision-making, synthesizing perspectives from psychology, business strategy, and system dynamics.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results on hesitant fuzzy and its extensions decision making theory.

Stochastic processes are found in probabilistic systems that evolve with time.

Unfortunately, leadership does not have a one-size-fits-all definition.

Production planning, inventory management, quality control, and maintenance policy are critical components of the manufacturing system.

The New Era of Global Services is the result of interviews with more than seventy international leaders.

Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research on and in project management.

In this book, the author begins with the elementary theory of Markov chains and very progressively brings the reader to the more advanced topics.

This book offers a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources and optimization strategies in hybrid power systems (HPSs).

Volume 95 of Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology focuses on advances in proteomic techniques and their application in biomedicine and pharmacology.

Interest in the phenomenon known as "e;lean"e; has grown significantly in recent years.

Curcumin-Based Nanomedicines as Cancer Therapeutics presents a consistent and thorough overview of nanocurcumin applications in cancer treatments.

Many probability books are written by mathematicians and have the built-in bias that the reader is assumed to be a mathematician coming to the material for its beauty.

The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area.

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books.

This book presents some recent systems engineering and mathematical tools for health care along with their real-world applications by health care practitioners and engineers.

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

Entropy optimization is a useful combination of classical engineering theory (entropy) with mathematical optimization.

This book offers a simple introduction to the theory and practice of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background.

This fundamental work is a sequel to monographs by the same author: Variational Analysis and Applications (2018) and the two Grundlehren volumes Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation: I Basic Theory, II Applications (2006).

Die "Operations Research Proceedings 1985" geben eine vollständige Übersicht über die Vorträge, die auf der vierzehnten Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesell­ schaft für Operations Research in der Zeit vom 11.

The last two years have seen significant developments in the standardization of GMPLS and its implementation in optical and other networks.