Operational research

The Japan Association of Simulation & Gaming (JASAG) and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) hosted ISAGA 2003, the 34th annual conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA), at Kazusa Akademia Park in Kisarazu, Japan,August 25-29, 2003.

As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems (DSS), this book is essential for the library of every DSS practitioner, researcher, and educator.

This text bridges the gulf between theoretical economic principles of negotiation and auction theory and their multifaceted applications in actual practice.

This book is an elegant and rigorous presentation of integer programming, exposing the subject's mathematical depth and broad applicability.

This book covers a large spectrum of cutting-edge game theory applications in management science in which Professor Georges Zaccour has made significant contributions.

This cross-disciplinary business book develops insight into the management of businesses operating in various economic sectors that take a proactive approach to the triple dimension of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), positioning itself as a key reference for both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management.

This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases.

The connected dominating set has been a classic subject studied in graph theory since 1975.

In Consequentialism Reconsidered, Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy methods for solving flow tasks in both transportation and networks.

This monograph deals with a general class of solution approaches in deterministic global optimization, namely the geometric branch-and-bound methods which are popular algorithms, for instance, in Lipschitzian optimization, d.

Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats.

Der vorliegende Tagungsband zum gemeinsamen Workshop der GOR-Arbeitsgruppen „Entscheidungstheorie und -praxis“, „Fuzzy Systeme, Neuronale Netze und Künstliche Intelligenz“ sowie „OR im Umweltschutz“ umfasst acht konzeptionelle, empirische sowie experimentelle Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries?

With a revised understanding of the science and philosophy behind human needs, businesses will be better equipped to provide long-term satisfaction for their customers.

Executives' morality and ethics became major research topics following recent business scandals, but the research missed a major explanation of executives' immorality: career advancement by "e;jumping"e; between firms that causes ignorance of job-pertinent tacit local knowledge, tempting "e;jumpers"e; to covertly conceal this ignorance.

Security Operations Management, 3rd edition, is the latest edition the seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today's security management professionals and students.

Supply relations are often governed by so-called relational contracts.

Uncertainties in Numerical Weather Prediction is a comprehensive work on the most current understandings of uncertainties and predictability in numerical simulations of the atmosphere.

In the era of complex healthcare challenges, the question arises: Can health cooperatives be the catalysts for transformation in the healthcare system?

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This book provides an introduction to vector optimization with variable ordering structures, i.

Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists introduces programming tools and numerical methods to engineering and science students, with the goal of helping the students to develop good computational problem-solving techniques through the use of numerical methods and the Python programming language.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

Learn RPA by building business solutions such as ERP and CRM automation, software robots, and intelligent process automation from scratchKey FeaturesUse popular RPA tools Automation Anywhere A2019 and UiPath, for real-world task automationBuild automation solutions for domains such as System Administration, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Customer RelationsExtend your RPA capabilities by implementing Intelligent process automation with APIs and AIBook DescriptionRobotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines.

Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems explores modeling and analysis as crucial activities in the development of Cyber-Physical Systems, which are inherently cross-disciplinary in nature and require distinct modeling techniques related to different disciplines, as well as a common background knowledge.

This is a book about how management and control decisions are made by persons who collaborate and possibly use the support of an information system.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book develops a general theory of managerial decision making on the basis of a few elementary postulates.

Complexity is slowing companies down, costing them on average 10% of their profits.

Management Control and Uncertainty recognizes that all control takes place under conditions of uncertainty: it does now, and it always has done.

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation.

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control.

Christian Köster präsentiert zur Problematik der Bestellmenge für nicht lagerfähige Güter bei unsicherer Nachfrage verschiedene Laborexperimente in Newsvendor-Entscheidungssituationen bei asymmetrischen Nachfrageverteilungen.

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design.

Dieses Lehrbuch ermöglicht dem Leser einen leichten Einstieg in die Matrixrechnung.

If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions.

This book deals with decision making in environments of significant data un- certainty, with particular emphasis on operations and production management applications.

Aimed at final year undergraduate students, this is the first volume to publish in a new series of text covering core subjects in operational research in an accessible student-friendly format.

Hierarchische Führungsaufgaben bestehen darin, daß eine übergeordnete Instanz auf das Verhalten untergeordneter Entscheidungsträger Einfluß nimmt.

Finance and Risk Management for International Logistics and the Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of financial and risk management tools, activity-based costing, and multi-criteria decision-making, providing comprehensive guidance for those researching and working in logistics and supply chain management.

At a time when consulting has increasingly come under scrutiny by governments and communities, Professional Management Consulting: A Guide for New and Emerging Consultants redefines "e;management consulting"e; and reinforces what it means to be a professional.

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores, manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even your own household.

This book focuses on cutting-edge innovations and core theories, principles, and algorithms applicable to a wide area.