Operational research

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.

The nature of contemporary Organisation Development (OD) is often written about by both scholars and practitioners, yet there is little evidence of these descriptions (or debates on key issues) having been based on reliably collected data.

This book offers a novel multi-portfolio approach and stochastic programming formulations for modeling and solving contemporary supply chain risk management problems.

The book focuses on a set of cutting-edge research techniques, highlighting the potential of soft computing tools in the analysis of economic and financial phenomena and in providing support for the decision-making process.

Focusing on the business implications of green innovation, this book describes the sheer impact, spread, and opportunities arising every day, and how business leaders can implement green innovative practices today to realize tangible as well as intangible business advantages in the future.

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

Arc Routing: Theory, Solutions and Applications is about arc traversal and the wide variety of arc routing problems, which has had its foundations in the modern graph theory work of Leonhard Euler.

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books.

Queueing Theory deals with systems where there is contention for resources, but the demands are only known probabilistically.

This volume uses advanced machine learning techniques to analyze government communication to evaluate policy effectiveness.

This proceedings gathers selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXX International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM), held from June 26 to 28, 2024, in Salvador, Brazil.

Did you know eighty-five percent of family firms do not survive the third generation?

This volume highlights recent applications of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models in the field of finance.

How do firms live through and experience change?

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex tasks.

This book offers the first introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization.

Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation.

Dynamic Optimization and Differential Games has been written to address the increasing number of Operations Research and Management Science problems that involve the explicit consideration of time and of gaming among multiple agents.

"e;Optimization on Metric and Normed Spaces"e; is devoted to the recent progress in optimization on Banach spaces and complete metric spaces.

Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain.

Our understanding of information and information dynamics has outgrown classical information theory.

Take your SAP ABAP skills to the next level by mastering ABAP programming techniques with the help of real-world examplesKey FeaturesBecome adept at building interfaces and explore ABAP tools and techniquesDiscover the modern functionalities available in the latest version of ABAPLearn the process of creating stunning HTML5 applications using SAPUI5Book DescriptionAdvanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry.

Are you looking for new lectures for your course on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, or algorithmic game theory?

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL).

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

Workshift is a blueprint for organizations transitioning into the virtual workplace, where employees are always connected, and work is no longer a destination.

This book integrates for readers three areas of knowledge, pertaining to risk-based project decision making: project risk management (PRM), complexity theory, and decision-making under deep uncertainty (DMDU).

Mathematical programming has know a spectacular diversification in the last few decades.

This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems.

Clinical Engineering: A Handbook for Clinical and Biomedical Engineers, Second Edition, helps professionals and students in clinical engineering successfully deploy medical technologies.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Methoden, die geeignet sind, Entscheidungen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen, wie Wirtschaft, Politik, Medizin oder Privatsphäre, mit einem höheren Grad an Rationalität zu treffen.

The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing.

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Achieve enterprise automation in your Linux environment with this comprehensive guideKey FeaturesAutomate your Linux infrastructure with the help of practical use cases and real-world scenariosLearn to plan, build, manage, and customize OS releases in your environmentEnhance the scalability and efficiency of your infrastructure with advanced Linux system administration conceptsBook DescriptionAutomation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively.

This book explores optimal decisions for companies and governments to build a sustainable supply chain and economy by applying analytical models from new perspectives.

Multiple Criteria Decision Aid is a field which has seen important developments in the last few years.

National oil companies are big business with about 80 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, and they are crucial to the world's energy supplies.

The book begins with an introduction to software reliability, models and techniques.

This volume of Advanced Series in Management offers cutting-edge research into international migration in Europe.

This book presents a review of the role of overconfidence in small firms and explores how biased judgment and decision-making can affect business performance.

Leaders and managers are rightly tasked to take their organizations and communities to a desired future.

This book presents some twenty case studies, showing how companies in different industry sectors and of different sizes make advances in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).