Operational research

This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making.

Our traditional ways of looking at economics, business and politics are not fit for purpose.

This book applies Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools and techniques to problems in location analysis.

In today's global economy, supply chains are an essential ingredient to corporate survival and growth.

This volume offers the state-of-the-art research and developments in service science and related research, education and practice areas.

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning.

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

This monograph is focused on the derivations of exact distributions of first boundary crossing times of Poisson processes, compound Poisson processes, and more general renewal processes.

Alarm or alert detection remains an issue in various areas from nature, i.

Since the 1992 Rio summit, corporate environmental responsibility has grown beyond complying with increasingly stringent environmental regulation and taking up proactive initiatives.

In einer Zeit, in der Unternehmen zunehmend flexibler und dynamischer agieren müssen, stellt die agile Unternehmensführung einen entscheidenden Wettbewerbsvorteil dar.

This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts.

This book focuses on negotiation processes and how negotiation modeling frameworks and information technology can support these.

Uncertainty affects us in our everyday lives, and in a wide range of situations but how do individuals and indeed organisations respond to uncertainty and how does it impact their decision-making and actions?

BOOST LOYALTY, PROFITABILITY, AND GROWTH WITH A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABILITYOrganizational Survival provides a rational, research-based approach to creating a durable business strategy designed to meet the needs of today's customers and position an organization to outperform while positively impacting society, the environment, community, and the bottom line.

This volume presents techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science to analyze problems in business, economics, finance, insurance, and related fields.

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.

Handbook of Mobility Data Mining: Volume Three: Mobility Data-Driven Applications introduces the fundamental technologies of mobile big data mining (MDM), advanced AI methods, and upper-level applications, helping readers comprehensively understand MDM with a bottom-up approach.

Introduction to Intelligent Simulation of Complex Discrete Systems and Processes: RAO Language focuses on a unique approach in modeling and simulation of complex systems.

In engineering and economics a certain vector of inputs or decisions must often be chosen, subject to some constraints, such that the expected costs arising from the deviation between the output of a stochastic linear system and a desired stochastic target vector are minimal.

This text is among the first to reveal the intricacies of an airline's Operations Control Centre; especially the thought processes, information flows, and strategies taken to mitigate disruptions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2015.

Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skillsWith the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products.

This book sets out to provide postgraduate researchers with guidance on selecting and applying sociotechnical theories to the study of information systems, including how they can be combined to complement each other.

In diesem Buch werden Strukturierungskonzepte für die Lösung organisatorischer Gestaltungsprobleme entwickelt.

Building a Security Measures and Metrics Program is a video presentation.

Microsoft hails the latest version of its flagship server operating system, Windows Server 2008, as "e;the most secure Windows Server ever"e;.

This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on August 17-19, 2016.

The disjunctive cut principle of Balas and Jeroslow, and the related polyhedral annexation principle of Glover, provide new insights into cutting plane theory.

This book provides the key technologies involved in an organization's digital transformation.

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

Knowledge-based systems are increasingly found in a wide variety of settings and this handbook has been written to meet a specific need in their widening use.

The 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2012) showcased research on human locomotion.

First published in 1994.

This book is about the relationship between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and new technologies that have emerged in the early years of the twenty-first century.

This fifth edition of "e;Product Lifecycle Management"e; updates and adds to the successful fourth edition, the most frequently cited PLM publication.

Today's world is complex and getting more so each day.

Despite the seemingly relentless march of the multinationals, small businesses continue to thrive across the globe and form a vital part of all successful economies.

GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary.

Today all companies, U.

This book is intended as atribute to Gianluca Spina, the influential and inspiring Professorof Business Management & Organization and Supply Chain Management at theSchool of Management of Politecnico di Milano, who very sadly passed away earlyin 2015.

Learn Azure's cloud capabilities with the help of this introductory guide to employing Azure for your cloud infrastructure needs.

This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance.

This new book addresses the status of the field of System Dynamics 60+ years after its inception.

This monograph focuses on the construction of regression models with linear and non-linear constrain inequalities from the theoretical point of view.

In dieser Arbeit wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, mit dessen Hilfe man die Informationsverarbeitung und die Kommunikation im Bürobereich optimal mit moderner Technik (EDV, Bürosysteme) unterstützen kann.

To ensure the security and economy of future power system operation in the context of a high degree of renewable energy penetration, this thesis proposes a new distributed algorithm called generalized master-slave-splitting (G-MSS) theory and a new transmission-distribution coordinated energy management (TDCEM) method that is based on the G-MSS theory.