Operational research

Organizations in the Face of Crisis offers a new approach to the treatment of threats to an organization, the brand, and the stakeholders.

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.

This book covers all of the concepts required to tackle second-order cone programs (SOCPs), in order to provide the reader a complete picture of SOC functions and their applications.

This book will serve as a framework for you as a software engineer seeking a fulfilling career and wishing to stay passionate and maintain a healthy mental state.

This book aims to revisit the "e;traditional"e; interaction between channel strategies and the marketing mix in a connected world.

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.

The Islamic labor market rests on the principles of the free market exchange of Islamic economics.

This book considers a range of problems in operations research, which are formulated through various mathematical models such as complementarity, variational inequalities, multiobjective optimization, fixed point problems, noncooperative games and inverse optimization.

This book systematically explores theories related to linguistic computational models and group decision making methods under uncertainty.

Over the past thirty-five years, a substantial amount of theoretical and empirical scholarly research has been developed across the discipline domains of Transportation.

Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities.

This book offers the first introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization.

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.

Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities.

Inclusive Transport: Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages offers readers profound and multifaceted insights into transportation and social equity, guiding transportation and urban studies researchers, planners, and policy makers in evaluating potential solutions to this complex issue.

Risk is of fundamental importance in this era of the global economy.

Based on the "e;Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on natural and unnatural disasters.

In this book, the theory, methods and applications of separable optimization are considered.

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

From the Preface:Blending ideas from operations research, music psychology, music theory, and cognitive science, this book aims to tell a coherent story of how tonality pervades our experience, and hence our models, of music.

Institutions - the structures, practices, and meanings that define what people and organizations think, do, and aspire to - are created through process.

Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress: An Earth-Observation Perspective focuses on vegetation dynamics and crop stress at both the regional and country levels by using earth observation (EO) data sets.

This fascinating new core textbook, authored by a highly respected academic with over a decade of industry experience, takes a global and strategic approach to the important topic of operations management (OM).

Michael Strobel worked for several years as a software engineer and consultant in the German IT industry before joining IBM Research in Switzerland, where he developed his interest in support for negotiations in electronic markets.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results about fuzzy decision-making method based on prospect theory.

This book tackles the perplexing problem of how to capture the qualitative differences that exist in entrepreneurship at any given point in time or across time, by presenting a novel qualitative index: Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI).

Project management has become a widespread instrument enabling organizations to efficiently master the challenges of steadily shortening product life cycles, global markets and decreasing profit margins.

This book presents a structured approach to develop mathematical optimization formulations for several variants of facility layout.

Computational economics has been at the forefront in stimulating the de- velopment of mathematical methodologies for the analysis and solution of complex, large-scale problems.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories, and applications from various areas of management and engineering.

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms.

Making decisions is certainly the most important task managers are faced with, and it is often a very difficult one.

The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.

Dynamics of Information Systems: Algorithmic Approaches presents recent developments and results found by participants of the Fourth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA on February 20-22, 2012.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners.

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

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of management and engineering.

The purpose of this study is in keeping with the shift in concern over the eco- nomic problems of growth to those of income distribution in recent years.

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

Learn how to gain insights from your data as well as machine learning and become a presentation pro who can create interactive dashboardsKey FeaturesEnhance your presentation skills by implementing engaging data storytelling and visualization techniquesLearn the basics of machine learning and easily apply machine learning models to your dataImprove productivity by automating your data processesBook DescriptionData Analytics Made Easy is an accessible beginner's guide for anyone working with data.