Operational research

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

Neurological Modulation of Sleep provides readers with updated scientific reviews regarding the interaction between sleep and contributing factors, with special attention paid to the potential for neurological modulation of sleep via diet.

Richard Bellmann developed a theory of dynamic programming which is for many reasons still in the center of great interest.

Design for Health: Applications of Human Factors delves into critical and emergent issues in healthcare and patient safety and how the field of human factors and ergonomics play a role in this domain.

Software product lines are emerging as a critical new paradigm for software development.

Technology Innovation discusses the fundamental aspects of processes and structures of technology innovation.

Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Everything considers the foundations, metrics and applications of IoE systems.

This comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization places special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics.

The authors stress the relative simplicity, efficiency, flexibility of use, and suitability of various approaches used to solve difficult optimization problems.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in developing innovative service systems.

Consolidating existing knowledge in Design Science, this book proposes a new research method to aid the exploration of design and problem solving within business, science and technology.

International shipping is currently at a crossroads.

This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint.

In the past half century, we have experienced two major waves of methodological development in the study of human behavior in space and time.

The main purpose of the book is to give a rigorous introduction to the most important and useful solution methods of various types of stochastic control problems for jump diffusions and their applications.

This textbook lays the foundations for System-of-Systems Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management practices, principles, technique, and processes.

This volume comprises papers presented at the Symposium on Collective Choice, by leading experts in this field.

This book investigates the classical model of cooperative games with transfer- able utility (TU-games) and models in which the players have the possibility to cooperate partially, namely fuzzy and multichoice games.

In the ideal world, major decisions would be made based on complete and reliable information available to the decision maker.

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the history, theory and techniques of informetrics.

This book contends that structural reforms, the essential third arrow in Abe's 'Abenomics', will not happen.

The increasing complexity of financial problems and the enormous volume of financial data often make it difficult to apply traditional modeling and algorithmic procedures.

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Recent research on joint or dyadic decision making has received renewed attention from behavioral scientists.

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.

These notes grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Univer- sity of Budapest during 1985-1986.

Präskriptive Strukturierungen für Aushandlungen, wie sie in Organisationen beispielsweise im Rahmen von Budgetierungsprozessen ablaufen, werden in diesem Buch entwickelt.

This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of 'unethics' in contemporary affairs in economics, business, and society.

This book lays out a foundation and taxonomy for Behavioral Decision Analysis, featuring representative work across various domains.

The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade.

This text is an introduction to Operations Management.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.

This book focuses on various topics related to engineering and management of requirements, in particular elicitation, negotiation, prioritisation, and documentation (whether with natural languages or with graphical models).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Meeting on Innovation for Systems Information and Decision, INSID 2021, which was held during December 1-3, 2021.

This volume contains the proceedings of the summer school "e;Modern Methods of Optimization"e;, held at the Schlof3 Thurnau of the University of Bayreuth, October 1-6, 1990.

Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives.

Over the past 5 years, the concept of big data has matured, data science has grown exponentially, and data architecture has become a standard part of organizational decision-making.

This monograph presents results originating from a research project investigating autonomous adaptation of vehicle schedules and systematically develops and evaluates innovative ideas for the management of transportation processes in volatile scenarios.

This book provides an understanding of the concept of marketing and its role in business and public organization including the need for scientific marketing analysis.

Sustainable Production and Logistics: Modeling and AnalysisSubject Guide: Engineering - Industrial & ManufacturingThis book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

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 proceedings volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth Int- national Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport (CASPT 2004), which was held at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, California, USA, from August 9-11, 2004.

This book describes an effective decision-making and planning architecture for enhancing the navigation capabilities of automated vehicles in the presence of non-detailed, open-source maps.

In this thesis, Iris Heckmann develops a profound conceptual basis of supply chain risk analytics.