Operational research

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities.

This book covers the proceedings from the 2016 International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, and reflects current research results of chaos and complexity studies and their applications in various fields.

This book provides an in-depth presentation of algorithms for and complexity of open shop scheduling.

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

Thisbook gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the 4th InternationalSymposium and 26th National Conference of the Hellenic Operational ResearchSociety.

This book highlights new and original contributions on Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization both from the theoretical point of view and from applications in all fields.

This proceedings volume collects contributions from the 5th AIRO Young Workshop and AIRO PhD School 2021 joint event on "e;Optimization and Data Science: Trends and Applications"e;, held online, from February 8 to 12, 2021.

This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics.

This book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Internet of Things (IoT) in Management Science and Operations Research.

This book presents interdisciplinary research in software engineering with applications for the social sector.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2017, held in Padua, Italy, in June 2017.

This book introduces readers to the main traffic flow modelling approaches and discusses their features and applications.

The book introduces readers to some of the latest advances in and approaches to decision-making methods based on thermodynamic characters and hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers.

The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby's cybernetics.

This contributed volume presents a collection of materials on supply chain management including industry-based case studies addressing petrochemical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and reverse logistics topics.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

This book is dedicated to the issues and complexities of industrial services supply chain management.

This expanded second edition of the 2014 textbook features dedicated sections on action and observation, so that the reader can combine the use of the developed theoretical basis with practical guidelines for deployment.

This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.

This book provides students and researchers with a resource that includes the current application of the multi-criteria decision theory in a variety of fields, including the environment, health care, engineering, and architecture.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence "e;Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

Shipping is the world's oldest sharing economy and is conducted in a self-organizing manner.

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

The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing.

This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations.

This textbook provides an innovative pedagogy to students who will be the policy makers of tomorrow.

This book considers and assesses essential financial issues by utilizing data science and fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods.

This volume highlights recent applications of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models in the field of finance.

This book is addressed to researchers in operations research, data science and artificial intelligence.

Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share.

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 the mathematical theory of vector variational inequalities and their relations with vector optimization problems.

This book provides a straightforward overview for every researcher interested in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems (SDVRPs).

This book covers a selection of fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control.

This book presents selected papers on Business Management and Technology, focusing on recent research in Business, Optimization, Technology, and Global Issues.

This book presents a collection of essays written by leading researchers to honor Roman Slowinski's major scholarly interests and contributions.

This book addresses the main challenges affecting modern logistics and supply chains and is organized according to five main themes: supply chain strategy and management, information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and related business models, vertical and horizontal collaboration, intelligent hubs (e.

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

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

This edited monograph contains a comprehensive overview of educational developments in the fields of operations research (OR) and management science (MS).

This book aims to contribute to the discussion about the implications of fuzzy logic, neural networks, digital era, and other intelligent techniques on organizations.

This book presents the methodology and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and corporate failure prediction.

Devoted to the structure of approximate solutions of discrete-time optimal control problems and approximate solutions of dynamic discrete-time two-player zero-sum games, this book presents results on properties of approximate solutions in an interval that is independent lengthwise, for all sufficiently large intervals.

Strategic planning is an essential task that helps companies adapt to changes in the environment and to develop proactively.

This is the third edition of a textbook that has been used in a number of undergraduate courses and covers the standard models and techniques used in decision-making in organizations.

This book bridges the fields of Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Quality models in order to illustrate how digital transformation affects the work of researchers and managers in Supply Chain Quality problems.

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

Making important business decisions is usually a difficult and complicated task.