Operational research

Bei Delegation von Entscheidungen stellt sich für die delegierende Instanz das Problem, positive Anreize zu gewähren, bei denen der Entscheidungsträger genau dann persönliche Vorteile erzielt, wenn er im Sinne der Instanz entscheidet.

Fuzzy Logic in Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management.

This textbook offers graduate students a concise introduction to the classic notions of convex optimization.

This book is a practical and theoretical guide that demonstrates how to leverage investment data in numerical models despite uncertainty and ambiguity.

This book explains the most prominent and some promising new, general techniques that combine metaheuristics with other optimization methods.

The New Era of Global Services is the result of interviews with more than seventy international leaders.

The field of real options is concerned with the management and financial valuation of operational flexibility in business endeavors.

This book describes a variety of quantitative methods that are vital to planning and control in the operations of the industrial world, from suppliers to manufacturing plants to distribution centers and to the dealers and stores.

The well-ordered, fully aligned view of organization and management practice, with its unfailingly positive results, bears little relationship to the world that managers and others experience every day.

The field of real options is concerned with the management and financial valuation of operational flexibility in business endeavors.

This book is a practical and theoretical guide that demonstrates how to leverage investment data in numerical models despite uncertainty and ambiguity.

This book includes selected papers presented at the Indo-French Seminar on Optimization, Variational Analysis and Applications (IFSOVAA-2020), held at the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, from 2-4 February 2020.

Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today.

Over the last fifty-plus years, the increased complexity and speed of integrated circuits have radically changed our world.

This unique textbook explicitly addresses the intersection of advanced analytics and procurement.

Stochastic processes are found in probabilistic systems that evolve with time.

This book presents the construction and resolution of 50 practical optimization problems and covers an exceptionally wide range, including games-associated problems (Unblock Me, Sudokus), logistical problems, and problems concerning plant distribution, production, operations scheduling, management and resource allocation.

Brainstorming is probably the best known of all the techniques available for creative problem solving.

This book presents recent advances in the theory and application of the Best-Worst Method (BWM).

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology in medical data analysis has led to the concept of radiomics.

This book reports on cutting-edge research in innovative systems interfaces, with an emphasis on both lifecycle development and human-technology interaction, especially in the cases of virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems.

This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing.

This innovative Handbook aims to look at the logic, various dimensions, and implications of collaboration in construction.

This book illustrates the application of grey systems theory to management science research, by developing selection procedures for grey analytical methods suitable for forecasting, decision-making, and analysing variable relationships.

This book examines the life and times of John Bolton, a Cambridge graduate who graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, and returned to Britain to quickly chair Solartron, one of the outstanding of the early British electronics companies in the 1950s.

This book explores the different ways in which human-factors engineering influences organizations' and enterprises' well-being and competitiveness.

Developing economies such as those in sub-Saharan Africa are searching for realistic economic policy prescriptions.

Volume 29 of Research in Organizational Change and Development includes ten contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.

This book presents the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM2016) held from August 30 to September 02, 2016 at Baku, Azerbaijan and organized by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management, Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) and Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 2-3, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account on recent applications of fuzzy sets and possibility theory in reliability and safety analysis.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed research papers presented at the joint IV ASOCIO/XIX IISE Region 16 Conference held in Chia and Bogota, Colombia.

This volume contains selected papers presented at the "e;International Workshop on Computationally Intensive Methods in Simulation and Op- th th timization"e; held from 23 to 25 August 1990 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in La~enburg, Austria.

The main contents and character of the monograph did not change with respect to the first edition.

This book proposes novel methods for solving different types of non-cooperative games with interval/fuzzy/intuitionistic fuzzy payoffs.

A recent significant innovation in mathematical sciences has been the progressive use of nonsmooth calculus, an extension of the differential calculus, as a key tool of modern analysis in many areas of mathematics, operations research, and engineering.

Over the past 5 years, the concept of big data has matured, data science has grown exponentially, and data architecture has become a standard part of organizational decision-making.

This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges.

This edited volume is brought out from the contributions of the research papers presented in the International Conference on Data Science and Business Analytics (ICDSBA- 2017), which was held during September 23-25 2017 in ChangSha, China.

An investigation into the process of management accounting change triggered by IT implementation, comparing Enterprise Resource Planning with custom software in relation to change in management accounting rules and routines.

The book addresses the vital issue of how business leaders can prepare themselves to deal with the impact of unexpected events.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.