Operational research

Successfully delivering projects at an organization can happen with the careful utilization of a variety of methods and practices.

Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves provides an overview of classical and new results pertaining to the usage of space-filling curves in global optimization.

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success 50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including: Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life Cycle and OrganizationsLearning the Project Management ProcessesIntegrating Project ManagementManaging the Project ScopeManaging the Project ScheduleManaging Project CostsManaging Project QualityManaging Project Human ResourcesManaging Project CommunicationsManaging Project RisksManaging Project ProcurementThe PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Researchers develop simulation models that emulate real-world situations.

Evidence-Based Decision-Making: How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases examines how a wide range of factual evidence, primarily derived from a variety of data available to organizations, can be used to improve the quality of business decision-making, by helping decision makers circumvent the various cognitive biases that adversely impact how we all think.

The main goal of this book is to introduce readers to functional analysis methods, in particular, time dependent analysis, for reliability models.

Nonconvex Optimization is a multi-disciplinary research field that deals with the characterization and computation of local/global minima/maxima of nonlinear, nonconvex, nonsmooth, discrete and continuous functions.

In many engineering design and optimization problems, the presence of uncertainty in the data is a critical issue.

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order.

This textbook covers the fundamental mechanisms of the Six Sigma philosophy, while showing how this approach is used in solving problems that affect the variability and quality of processes and outcomes in business settings.

Dynamic Systems in Management Science explores the important gaps in the existing literature on operations research and management science by providing new and operational methods which are tested in practical environment and a variety of new applications.

This book covers design of experiments (DoE) applied in production engineering as a combination of manufacturing technology with applied management science.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

The cybersecurity of connected medical devices is one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare today.

This timely book deals with a current topic, i.

Medical Oncology Compendium discusses several important topics in oncology with the help of leading experts worldwide who incorporate not only knowledge on recent developments in the field, but contextualize them within diverse socioeconomic environments to guarantee the applicability of the content in challenging scenarios.

Most seminars are useless - it's an open secret in HR circles.

In the literature of decision analysis it is traditional to rely on the tools provided by probability theory to deal with problems in which uncertainty plays a substantive role.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Organizations increasingly use temporary designs.

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice.

Andy Garlick's book explores the role of quantitative techniques in modern risk management.

The text begins with a discussion of the basic principles of supply chain management and some attributes of certain industries.

Economic Role of Transport Infrastructure: Theory and Models helps evaluate the economic effects of transport infrastructure investments within a cost-benefit framework for maximum economic impact.

Bei der dynamischen Umlegung von Quelle-Ziel-Matrizen auf ein Verkehrsnetz werden iterative Verfahren mit mikroskopischen oder mesoskopischen Verkehrsflussmodellen eingesetzt.

This book presents the multi-criteria approach to decision support, as well as the various multi-criteria tools to help avoid multi-objective optimization.

This textbook introduces systems science as an entry point to present a basic introduction to research models and methods in management science (operation research).

This book investigates the intuitive application of strategic knowledge arbitrage and serendipity (SKARSE) principles by CEOs in their use of mobile electronic devices.

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 presents the human, cultural, and scientific contributions of professor Eliano Pessa, who recently passed away.

Dieses Forschungsvorhaben zielt darauf ab, individuelle Entrepreneure hinsichtlich ihrer Veränderungstendenzen zur Nutzung der Entscheidungslogik Effectuation und Causation zu untersuchen – insbesondere während des Gründungsprozesses.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

This book presents innovative and high-quality research regarding advanced decision support systems (DSSs).

Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes, held at CMS College, Kerala, India, on 7-10 January 2019.

Hampshire's book is aimed at the lay reader and its pages are peppered with practical advice and illustrative case studies Irish TimesBusiness leaders are often too busy to familiarise themselves with the benefits and risks of technical undertakings such as new IT plans or changing digital platforms.

This book discusses recent advances and research in applied mathematics, statistics and their applications in computing.

Diverse philosophies constitute the theoretical ground of the study of the aesthetic side of organization.

Professional practice in the design and execution of employee survey programs has evolved tremendously over the past decade.

This book focuses on port collaborative operation, an important emerging topic in the port and shipping industry, and deeply analyzes the high-quality collaborative mechanism of port groups from the perspectives of port groups' supply chain cooperative operation mechanism, port groups' logistics network optimization, port groups' collaborative scheduling optimization of resources, etc.

This book presents Systems Engineering from a modern, multidisciplinary engineering approach, providing the understanding that all aspects of systems design, systems, software, test, security, maintenance and the full life-cycle must be factored in to any large-scale system design; up front, not factored in later.

This book offers a comprehensive and readable introduction to modern business and data analytics.

Statistical Decision Problems presents a quick and concise introduction into the theory of risk, deviation and error measures that play a key role in statistical decision problems.