Operational research

Blockchain technology is considered a disruptive innovation that changes the ways companies and global processes operate.

This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments.

Intelligent Edge Computing for Cyber Physical Applications introduces state-of-the-art research methodologies, tools and techniques, challenges, and solutions with further research opportunities in the area of edge-based cyber-physical systems.

This book provides a new modeling approach for portfolio optimization problems involving a lack of sufficient historical data.

Exercising Agency is a book about decision making.

The second edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply-chain and operations management, combining value creation networks and interacting processes.

Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications presents several useful mathematical analyses in queueing theory and mathematical models of key technologies in wired and wireless communication networks such as channel access controls, Internet applications, topology construction, energy saving schemes, and transmission scheduling.

What isn't management and why doesn't it matter?

The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking.

Solid business intelligence guidance uniquely designed for healthcare organizations Increasing regulatory pressures on healthcare organizations have created a national conversation on data, reporting and analytics in healthcare.

The goal of Inventory Management will be to explain the dynamics of inventory management's principles, concepts, and techniques as they relate to the entire supply chain (customer demand, distribution, and product transformation processes).

This book brings together the stories and ideas of the future from a survey of nearly 300 emerging leaders to get their points of view and thoughts about how organizations need to change in order to develop effective leaders of tomorrow.

Beliefs, Interactions and Preferences in Decision Making mixes a selection of papers, presented at the Eighth Foundations and Applications of Utility and Risk Theory (`FUR VIII') conference in Mons, Belgium, together with a few solicited papers from well-known authors in the field.

Production planning in fresh food industries is a challenging task.

This book presents recent research developments in social networks, economics, management, marketing and optimization applied to sports.

An in-depth Oracle Press guide to Oracle Exalytics In-Memory MachineWritten by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, this e-book offers comprehensive coverage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform.

Managerial Decisions in hierarchy organizations, such as the various manufacturing and service companies, are difficult to formalize and even more difficult to optimize.

Time, timing, and temporality are inherently important to organizational process studies, yet time remains an under-theorized construct that has struggled to move much beyond chronological conceptions of "e;clock"e; time.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

This book gathers selected contributions by top Portuguese and international researchers in the field of Operations Research, presented at the 19th Congress of APDIO (Portuguese Association of Operational Research).

Secure your container environment against cyberattacks and deliver robust deployments with this practical guideKey FeaturesExplore a variety of Kubernetes components that help you to prevent cyberattacksPerform effective resource management and monitoring with Prometheus and built-in Kubernetes toolsLearn techniques to prevent attackers from compromising applications and accessing resources for crypto-coin miningBook DescriptionKubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for managing containerized applications.

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.

PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR APPLYING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES TO PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENTGovernment Program Management examines ongoing global reforms in public-sector program design and management and explains how to deliver public-sector programs in response to these reforms.

This book proposes a new approach to dynamic and online risk assessment of automated and autonomous marine systems, taking into account different environmental and operational conditions.

This book offers a timely overview of fuzzy and rough set theories and methods.

Queueing is an aspect of modern life that we encounter at every step in our daily activities.

This book introduces a novel approach to discrete optimization, providing both theoretical insights and algorithmic developments that lead to improvements over state-of-the-art technology.

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Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution.

Managers in organisations must make rational decisions.

This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing.

Companies of all kinds have fallen into some of the most fundamental of traps when it comes to consumer marketing; in assuming that the motivation that drives their customers is entirely rational.

A step-by-step approach to building stunning dashboards with QlikViewKey FeaturesPerform effective storytelling through interactive dashboards built with QlikViewCreate different types of visualizations from a variety of data sourcesIncludes tips, tricks, and best practices to perform effective Business Intelligence using QlikViewBook DescriptionQlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions.

The chapters of this Handbook volume cover nine main topics that are representative of recenttheoretical and algorithmic developments in the field.

This book has the purpose of providing the "e;state of the arts"e; concerning bio-economic modelling dealing with agricultural systems.

This book reports on practical approaches for facilitating the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems.

It is to demonstrate the enormous potential of the experimental method in economics by providing examples of how experimental economics can shed important new light on key issues of vital economic significance.

This book presents the latest developments in optimization and optimal control models; exact, approximate and hybrid methods; and their applications in lean and green supply chains.

This book analyzes a range of new developments in various fields concerning the concepts of chaos and complexity theory.

This unique textbook explicitly addresses the intersection of advanced analytics and procurement.

This book demonstrates the power of neural networks in learning complex behavior from the underlying financial time series data.

As Microsoft's Dynamics 365 gains ground and businesses adopt this tool, the demand for internal resources who need to understand how to support and maintain it increases.

The 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering joint event.