Operational research

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks.

In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits of shorter hours of labour.

This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS) as applied to sustainability.

This book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology.

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis.

This book introduces readers to multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) interventions used in complex situations.

Colorectal Cancer: Disease and Advanced Drug Delivery Strategies examines the combined impact of basic clinical and medical treatments as well as recent advances in the field of colorectal cancer.

An accessible fast paced introduction to all aspects of Power BI for new or aspiring BI professionals, data analysts, and data visualizers.

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

This book presents an extension of fuzzy set theory allowing for multi-polar information, discussing its impact on the theoretical and practical development of multi-criteria decision making.

Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, Second Edition provides geoscience students and professionals with answers to common questions like how one can derive a physical model from a finite set of observations containing errors, and how one may determine the quality of such a model.

Aviation safety and astronautics safety are taught as technical subjects informed, for the most part, by quantitative methods.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how the specific field addressed has evolved.

Writing the preface for a book feels good, because once you find yourself in a situation to write tiie preface, it usually means that you have already written the rest of the book.

A number of methodologies have been employed to provide decision making solutions to a whole assortment of financial problems in today's globalized markets.

This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how.

Olga Haaker entwickelt in diesem Buch ein dynamisches Entscheidungsmodell zur Bestimmung einer optimalen internationalen Standortverteilung für Industrieunternehmungen.

This book explores optimal decisions for companies and governments to build a sustainable supply chain and economy by applying analytical models from new perspectives.

Vorwort zur vierten Auflage Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt den mathematischen Stoff, den ein modern ausgebildeter Wirt­ schaftswissenschaftler beherrscht.

Both society and markets have changed, and the art of innovation has changed with them, becoming increasingly complex.

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities.

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

Work with the powerful subscription software, Office 365 to increase your organization's efficiency by managing file sharing, email exchange and much more.

"e;Combat Modeling"e; is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat.

These essays deal with various aspects of a new, rising field, socio- economics.

This edited book focuses on recent developments in Dynamic Network Modeling, including aspects of route guidance and traffic control as they relate to transportation systems and other complex infrastructure networks.

This book provides a new point of view on the subject of the management of uncertainty.

Transportation and Children's Well-Being applies an ecological approach, examining the social, psychological and physical impacts transport has on children at the individual and community level.

The world of retailing has changed dramatically in the past decade.

In most organizations, errors - although common and unavoidable - are rarely mentioned bottom-up.

This book presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future perspectives for the field of many-criteria optimization and decision analysis.

The subject theory is important in finance, economics, investment strategies, health sciences, environment, industrial engineering, etc.

This volume consists of papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, which was held in Hamburg from 28th to 31st July 1987.

Triggered largely by claims that small businesses were the main source of new jobs, an 'explosion' of interest in enterprise, entrepreneurs and small business has led to the establishment of a conventional wisdom about enterprise.

Build, design and improve advanced business intelligence solutions using Tableau's latest features, including Tableau Prep, Tableau Hyper, and Tableau ServerKey FeaturesMaster new features in Tableau 2019.

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

Management History is not simply a book about the history of business or even the history of management.

This book helps designers and manufacturers to select and develop the most suitable and competitive steel structures, which are safe, fit for production and economic.

From the Preface.

When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena.

Why do carefully planned projects fail?

This book presents papers by experts in the field of Industrial Engineering, covering topics in business strategy; modelling and simulation in operations research; logistics and production; service systems; innovation and knowledge; and project management.

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.

Hybrid Optimization focuses on the application of artificial intelligence and operations research techniques to constraint programming for solving combinatorial optimization problems.

Although no-one is, probably, too enthused about the idea, it is a fact that the development of most empirical sciences to a great extent depends on the development of data analysis methods and techniques, which, due to the necessity of application of computers for that purpose, actually means that it practically depends on the advancement and orientation of computer statistics.

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service line.

This book presents best practices involving applications of decision sciences, business tactics and behavioral sciences for COVID-19.

Models & Methods for Project Selection systematically examines in this book treatment the latest work in the field of project selection modeling.