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The book covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems theory from across the world and vividly presents the reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier research.

This book is the first to approach healthcare informatics from the perspective of innovation.

This book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors.

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling.

This book covers several new areas in the growing field of analytics with some innovative applications in different business contexts, and consists of selected presentations at the 6th IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence.

The book covers the domain of multi-criteria decision making, a topic which has gained significant attention of researchers and practitioners spanning a variety of disciplines for enhancing their decision making in real life situation.

This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems.

This book focuses on the implementation of Quality FunctionDeployment (QFD) in the construction industry as a tool to help buildingdesigners arrive at optimal decisions for external envelope systems withsustainable and buildable design goals.

This book systematically describes the development of manufacturing servitization in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book aims at providing cases with inspiring findings for global researchers in capacity allocation and reservation.

This book covers sustainable development in smart society's 5.

This book studies the urban logistics system from the perspective of reliability, based on the theory of urban logistics and system reliability, with the research of urban logistics system reliability as the main line, with matter element analysis and ant colony algorithm as the main research tools.

This book discusses recent theoretical developments in agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

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

This book starts from the relationship between urban built environment and travel behavior and focuses on analyzing the origin of traffic phenomena behind the data through multi-source traffic big data, which makes the book unique and different from the previous data-driven traffic big data analysis literature.

This book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors.

The book discusses state-of-the-art applications and methodologies of the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques and approaches.

"e;This book uses Caenorhabditis elegans as model animal to introduce the toxicity induction of toxicants at environmentally relevant concentrations under different conditions.

This edited volume is an in-depth collation of the usage of different quantitative decision making techniques in practical areas such as lean & green supply chain, reverse logistics, perishable logistics, closed loop supply chain, sustainable project management, retail management, block chain applications, optimal supplier selection problem, demand/supply modelling, forecasting under uncertainties, scheduling & sequencing, resource constraint logistics, dynamic network supply chain, risk evaluation, and so on.

This book mainly introduces some techniques of decision-making, uncertain reasoning and regression analysis under the hesitant fuzzy environment and expands the applications of hesitant fuzzy sets in solving practical problems.

This book provides a stage-by-stage integration of lean and green manufacturing paradigms to achieve environmental and economic benefits.

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the consecutively held international conferences on "e;Game Theory and Networks"e;, organized by the Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, India, in collaboration with the Economics Department of Queen's University, Belfast, UK, during September 6-9, 2019 and September, 13-15 2018.

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling.

This book presents a collection of mathematical models that deals with the real scenario in the industries.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

This edited book addresses the challenges in managing the operations and supply chain of organizations in the era of internet of things and Industry 4.

This book illustrates the importance effective cost management systems inproviding a supportive environment in which reliable and relevant managementinformation can be generated.

This book provides several inventory models for making the right decision in inventory management under different environments.

This book focuses on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making, which comes from the selected articles on the Eighth International Forum on Decision Sciences held in Kunming, China, in 2020.

This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science.

This book provides the readers with the overall latest research on think tanks, summarizing the characteristics of think tanks, revealing the general laws and internal logic of think tank research, applying systems, dialectical views and operations research, system theory, and cybernetics to the problems existing in the research work of think tanks at home and abroad.

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings.

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

This book broadly explains the requirement to focus on core components in a business and provides a case study of open-pit mining operations throughout the book to understand the management perspective of large organizations.

In this book, the authors focus on three aspects related to the development of articulated agents: presenting an overview of high-level control algorithms for intelligent decision-making of articulated agents, experimental study of the properties of soft agents as the end-effector of articulated agents, and accurate management of low-level torque-control loop to accurately control the articulated agents.

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.

These proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and decision sciences.

This book mainly introduces the latest development of generalized intuitionistic multiplicative fuzzy calculus and its application.

This pioneering book on food study pursues an interdisciplinary approach to service science and the service engineering field.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the consecutively held international conferences on "e;Game Theory and Networks"e;, organized by the Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, India, in collaboration with the Economics Department of Queen's University, Belfast, UK, during September 6-9, 2019 and September, 13-15 2018.

Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and controls itself.

This book is the first to approach healthcare informatics from the perspective of innovation.

This book systematically examines and quantifies industrial problems by assessing the complexity and safety of large systems.

This book presents a range of qualitative and quantitative analyses in areas such as cybersecurity, sustainability, multivariate analysis, customer satisfaction, parametric programming, software reliability growth modeling, and blockchain technology, to name but a few.

This book focuses on the latest advances in nonlinear dynamic modeling in economics and finance, mainly-but not solely-based on the description of strategic interaction by using concepts and methods from dynamic and evolutionary game theory.

This book discusses significant research findings in the field of mathematical modelling, with particular emphasis on important applied-sciences, health, and social issues.

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the ranking methods for interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, multi-criteria decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and group decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations.