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This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management.

This book discusses inventory models for determining optimal ordering policies using various optimization techniques, genetic algorithms, and data mining concepts.

This book is the first work to conduct the emergency logistics optimization problem under the epidemic environment (whether natural or man-made), which provides a new perspective for the application of optimization theory.

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

This book provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings.

Content of this proceedings discusses emerging trends in structural reliability, safety and disaster management, covering topics like total quality management, risk maintenance and design for reliability.

This book discusses reliability applications for power systems, renewable energy and smart grids and highlights trends in reliable communication, fault-tolerant systems, VLSI system design and embedded systems.

The proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making.

This book provides a framework for governing policy implementation by various stakeholders during the delivery of infrastructure projects.

This book discusses key issues in the planning and operation of large-scale integrated energy systems (LSIES).

This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis.

This book develops the concepts of various unique optimization techniques in the crisp and fuzzy environment.

This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results on hesitant fuzzy and its extensions decision making theory.

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

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

This book provides valuable new insights into preventive measures for chronic arsenic poisoning, exploring the various causes, metabolism and toxicity, preventive drugs, functional foods and various methods for removing arsenic from contaminated water.

Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail transportation.

This book addresses higher-lower level decision autonomy for autonomous vehicles, and discusses the addition of a novel architecture to cover both levels.

This book introduces the theory and applications of uncertain optimal control, and establishes two types of models including expected value uncertain optimal control and optimistic value uncertain optimal control.

This book analyzes the underlying theoretical principles of multi-objective linear programming problems with multi-choice parameters.

This book addresses the specialized topic of input-output models for sustainable industrial systems.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management.

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

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems.

This book presents the latest developments and breakthroughs in fuzzy theory and performance prediction of queuing and reliability models by using the stochastic modeling and optimization theory.

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 provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings.

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 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.

The proceedings volume consists of academic papers on decision-making under uncertainty, smart decision, stochastic optimization, management simulation and its applications.

This book addresses the intellectual foundations, function, modeling approaches and complexity of cellular automata; explores cellular automata in combination with genetic algorithms, neural networks and agents; and discusses the applications of cellular automata in economics, traffic and the spread of disease.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

Covering network designs, discrete convex analysis, facility location and clustering problems, matching games, and parameterized complexity, this book discusses theoretical aspects of combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms.

This book provides essential information on emergency management.

This book provides an understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM) implementation for local/international construction operations, with a primary focus on Indonesian construction firms as an illustrative example.

This book, discusses the latest research on the intelligent control of two important components in smart grids, namely microgrids (MGs) and electric vehicles (EVs).

This book presents a variety of advanced research papers in optimization and dynamics written by internationally recognized researchers in these fields.

This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the history, theory and techniques of informetrics.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest research on hesitant fuzzy decision-making theory.

These conference proceedings focus on the topics of data-driven decision-making, stochastic decision-making, fuzzy decision-making and their applications in real-life problems.

This book develops and assesses a decision-making model for resource management in complex work systems in line with the "e;Systems Engineering"e; method.

This book introduces a new paradigm called 'Optimization in Changeable Spaces' (OCS) as a useful tool for decision making and problem solving.

This book provides a new modeling approach for portfolio optimization problems involving a lack of sufficient historical data.

This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on uncertainty theories (e.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

This book includes both theoretical results and application cases of analytical modeling based research related to the fashion and textile business.