Operational research

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the development of automatic traffic analysis systems that are able to not only anticipate traffic scenarios, but also understand the behavior of road users (vehicles, bikes, trucks, etc.

This book combines two distinctive topics: data science/image analysis and materials science.

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision-making under uncertainty by combining test information theory with expected utility theory.

This book includes results of the seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE'2014) and the 1st International Conference of Operations Research and Management (ICORM'2014) on November 7-11, 2014 in ZhuHai, China.

This book presents the state-of-the-art applications of machine learning in the finance domain with a focus on financial product modeling, which aims to advance the model performance and minimize risk and uncertainty.

Since the groundbreaking research of Harry Markowitz into the application of operations research to the optimization of investment portfolios, finance has been one of the most important areas of application of operations research.

This book systematically explores theories related to linguistic computational models and group decision making methods under uncertainty.

Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die Frage, wie ethische Entscheidungen in modernen Organisationen und Unternehmen heute sinnvoll organisiert werden können.

Numerical Algorithmic Science and Engineering (NAS&E), or more compactly, Numerical Algorithmics, is the theoretical and empirical study and the practical implementation and application of algorithms for solving finite-dimensional problems of a numeric nature.

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

Manufacturing companies need to adapt to the requirements of functioning in the era of Industry 4.

Die wachsende Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit in Verbindung mit der hohen Ressourcenintensität der Logistik machen nachhaltige Dienstleistungsinnovationen in der Logistik erforderlich.

Kaum eine Branche erscheint so gut geeignet, die Wertgenerierung durch vertikale Unt- nehmenszusammenschlüsse im internationalen Kontext und unter wechselnden Wettbewer- bedingungen zu untersuchen, wie die Bauindustrie.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the ranking methods for interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, multi-criteria decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and group decision-making methods with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations.

Wolfgang Albrecht thematisiert die zentrale Planung von Struktur, Leistungsverflechtungen und Kapitalmarkttransaktionen mehrstufiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke.

From the large overall scope of planning and management of technology, Technology Portfolio Planning and Management: Practical Concepts and Tools will focus specifically on the concepts and tools for the planning and management of an investment portfolio by a government or a business organization for either the development or the application of technologies.

This book is the seventh volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Center at Nankai University.

Bei der Behandlung dynamischer Systeme stellt sich dem Modellbilder immer das Problem einer adäquaten Modellformulierung.

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 monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of the maximum-entropy sampling problem (MESP), which is a fascinating topic at the intersection of mathematical optimization and data science.

Uncertainty has been of concern to engineers, managers and .

Analyzing the basic conditions of modern service and production processes, the strengthened competition constraints and unpredictable demand fluctuations are obvious factors which c- ate an intense pressure, on the one hand, to reduce costs through an efficient process control and, on the other hand, to optimize revenue through an adequate capacity and price control (demand-side revenue optimization).

As optimization researchers tackle larger and larger problems, scale interactions play an increasingly important role.

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 is dedicated to the systematization and development of models, methods, and algorithms for queuing systems with correlated arrivals.

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 provides an interdisciplinary approach to complexity, combining ideas from areas like complex networks, cellular automata, multi-agent systems, self-organization and game theory.

This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management.

Digital technologies have created an opportunity to bring together knowledge management, leadership, and innovation.

This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings.

The first ICANNGA conference, devoted to biologically inspired computational paradigms, Neural Net- works and Genetic Algorithms, was held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1993.

Ageing and dependence are two important characteristics in reliability and survival analysis, and they affect significantly the decision people make with regard to maintenance, repair/replacement, price setting, warranties, medical studies, and other areas.

Risk management is often complicated by situational uncertainties and the subjective preferences of decision makers.

This book provides a hands-on introduction to Machine Learning (ML) from a multidisciplinary perspective that does not require a background in data science or computer science.

This book presents a comprehensive series of methods in nonsmooth optimization, with a particular focus on their application in stochastic programming and dedicated algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty.

Claas Hoyer untersucht Fragestellungen der Planung des Recyclings von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien aus Elektrofahrzeugen.

This text is an introduction to Operations Management.

There is now a widely accepted view among manufacturing and service organisations that 'operations' can provide the means of achieving competitive edge.

Organizations are complex entities that must adapt the practices of their employees and management to meet the demands of a dynamic environment.

This book offers a timely snapshot of research and developments in the area of air traffic engineering and management.

This book is based on lectures given in a one-quarter course at UCLA.

This book uses the concepts of both cultural and psychic distance to analyse managers' perceptions in international business settings, with a specific focus on European and Chinese ventures in the green technology industry.

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This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

This book presents a collection of essays written by leading researchers to honor Roman Slowinski's major scholarly interests and contributions.

This collection of high-quality articles in the field of combinatorics, geometry, algebraic topology and theoretical computer science is a tribute to Jiri Matousek, who passed away prematurely in March 2015.

The main purpose of the book is to give a rigorous introduction to the most important and useful solution methods of various types of stochastic control problems for jump diffusions and their applications.