Operational research

Finite-dimensional optimization problems occur throughout the mathematical sciences.

Realization of productivity gains is a necessary condition for long-term consistent improvement in economic well being.

This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence "e;Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"e;, funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This book presents practical approaches for facilitating the achievement of excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

Nach Darstellung der Stärken und Schwächen klassischer PPS-System und JIT-Konzepte sowie deren Rahmenbedingungen wird ein Konzept der Gruppentechnologie entwickelt, das für Unternehmen der Klein- und Mittelserienfertigung geeignet ist.

The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management is a book that comprehensively covers theory and practice of the entire field, including both quantity and price-based RM, as well as significant coverage of supporting topics such as forecasting and economics.

This book describes five qualitative investment decision-making methods based on the hesitant fuzzy information.

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der in erster Linie diejenigen Studenten im vertiefenden Teil des Bachelor Studiums oder des Master Studiums ansprechen soll, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben.

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products.

This book is a comprehensive reference on ISO management system standards and their implementation.

This book gathers the contributions of the international conference "e;Optimization and Decision Science"e; (ODS2018), which was held at the Hotel Villa Diodoro, Taormina (Messina), Italy on September 10 to 13, 2018, and was organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society, in cooperation with the DMI (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Catania (Italy).

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 timely book deals with a current topic, i.

This book serves as an advanced text for a graduate course on stochastic algorithms for the students of probability and statistics, engineering, economics and machine learning.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.

Operations Strategy, 6th Edition, by Slack and Lewis, builds on concepts from strategic management, operations management, marketing and HRM.

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

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.

This monograph introduces a novel multiset-based conceptual, mathematical and knowledge engineering paradigm, called multigrammatical framework (MGF), used for planning and scheduling in resource-consuming, resource-producing (industrial) and resource-distributing (economical) sociotechnological systems (STS).

Kai Watermeyer entwickelt ein gemischt-ganzzahliges lineares Programm als Basis zur exakten Lösung der Ablaufplanung mit vollständiger Flexibilität, d.

Networks of Learning Automata: Techniques for Online Stochastic Optimization is a comprehensive account of learning automata models with emphasis on multiautomata systems.

Mit der wachsenden Komplexität betrieblicher Entscheidungssituationen gewinnt auch der Einsatz der Simulation an Bedeutung.

The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership- reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers.

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory.

This is a volume consisting of selected papers that were presented at the 3rd St.

Thisbook highlights what it takes to be successful in identifying and executing environmentalresponsibility from an operational perspective.

Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis presents the most recent developments in the field, together with their applications, mainly in the areas of insurance, finance, forecasting and marketing.

As a new type of technique, simplicial methods have yielded extremely important contributions toward solutions of a system of nonlinear equations.

Imparting experiences from the theatre world to show how to manage operations in the 21st century, this book provides the key ideas necessary to implement a new operational culture that will lead to excellence in service.

This book presents practical approaches for facilitating the achievement of excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

Mit Methoden und Anwendungen der computergestützten Tourenplanung befaßt sich dieses Buch.

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 contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

The Second Edition of this book presents the state of the art in this important field.

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Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver.

This expanded second edition of the 2014 textbook features dedicated sections on action and observation, so that the reader can combine the use of the developed theoretical basis with practical guidelines for deployment.

The book focuses on the next fields of computer science: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, decision theory, and computer-aided production management systems.

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt alle wesentlichen, in den wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienrichtungen benötigten mathematischen Kenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Linearen Algebra, Analysis und Optimierung.

This book introduces data-driven remaining useful life prognosis techniques, and shows how to utilize the condition monitoring data to predict the remaining useful life of stochastic degrading systems and to schedule maintenance and logistics plans.

Optimal State Estimation for Process Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Control presents various mechanistic model based state estimators and data-driven model based state estimators with a special emphasis on their development and applications to process monitoring, fault diagnosis and control.

This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge as well as offers significant theoretical contributions and policy implications.

This book combines the quantitative decision-informing techniques of management science and operations research with the data-centric techniques found throughout the world of analytics.

This volume contains two types of papers-a selection of contributions from the "e;Second International Conference in Network Analysis"e; held in Nizhny Novgorod on May 7-9, 2012, and papers submitted to an "e;open call for papers"e; reflecting the activities of LATNA at the Higher School for Economics.

This book provides research results and shares experiences in the area of supply chain management.