Operational research

Welcome to ANALYZE, designed to provide computer assistance for analyzing linear programs and their solutions.

This self-contained monograph presents a new stochastic approach to global optimization problems arising in a variety of disciplines including mathematics, operations research, engineering, and economics.

Risk management is a decision-making process which considers various factors with risk assessments relating to a potential hazard, in order to develop regulatory response options.

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This book illustrates the importance effective cost management systems inproviding a supportive environment in which reliable and relevant managementinformation can be generated.

This volume is devoted to models and methods in multiple objectives decision making.

Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how British industrial firms achieved a competitive advantage.

This book is designed to assist industrial engineers and production managers in developing procedural and methodological engineering tools to meet industrial standards and mitigate engineering and production challenges.

A smart city is a city that collates data via various technological methods, and uses insights gleaned from this data to manage assets, resources, services and operations more efficiently.

This is an introductory level text on stochastic modeling.

Mastering Statistical Process Control shows how to understand business or process performance more clearly and more effectively.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to decision-making, synthesizing perspectives from psychology, business strategy, and system dynamics.

The aim of this book is the development of the heavy traffic approach to the modeling and analysis of queueing networks, both controlled and uncontrolled, and many applications to computer, communications, and manufacturing systems.

This volume is centered around the issue of market design and resulting market dynamics.

Data Sharing Between Supply Chain Actors examines the function of Track and Trace (T&T) which enables companies to know the location of various objects and the history of its movement.

Industrial Tomography: Systems and Applications thoroughly explores the important tomographic techniques of industrial tomography, also discussing image reconstruction, systems, and applications.

This book contains eleven chapters describing some of the most recent methodological operations research developments in transportation.

This book presents recent developments and results found by participants of the Third International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA on February 16-18, 2011.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare is more than a comprehensive introduction toartificial intelligence as a tool in the generation and analysis of healthcare data.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface.

The topic of this book is known as dynamic scheduling, and is used to refer to three dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a baseline schedule and the analysis of a project schedule's risk as preparation of the project control phase during project progress.

Probability (including stochastic processes) is now being applied to virtually every academic discipline, especially to the sciences.

Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications presents several useful mathematical analyses in queueing theory and mathematical models of key technologies in wired and wireless communication networks such as channel access controls, Internet applications, topology construction, energy saving schemes, and transmission scheduling.

Explore distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts and develop real-time decentralized applications with Ethereum and SolidityKey FeaturesGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchainBuild powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contractsGain advanced insights into cryptography and cryptocurrenciesBook DescriptionBlockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media.

This book contains select papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Mathematics and Computing (ICEMC 2020), held at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Purba Midnapur, West Bengal, India, from 5-7 February 2020.

This book examines Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling (MCDM) methodologies and facilitates diverse ways for strategic decision-making in a variety of practical applications.

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria.

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

Introduction to Modeling in Physiology and Medicine, Second Edition, develops a clear understanding of the fundamental principles of good modeling methodology.

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.

Now in its Fourth Edition, the Supply Chain and Transportation Dictionary maintains its position as the most comprehensive dictionary in the field.

This book gives a self-contained introduction to the theory of random interlacements.

The book provides various research methods and ordering policies for inventory management in the sustainable environment in India.

This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study of the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of Agile Project Management (APM).

This book presents 27 methods of the Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM), which are not discussed in the existing books, nor studied in details, using more applications.

Research and development infrastructures are a critical success factor in the platform of science and technology.

Why do some corporate superstars collapse dramatically, while others survive and prosper over many decades?

New efficiency theory refers to the various parametric and semi-parametric methods of estimating production and cost frontiers, which include data envelopment analysis (DEA) with its diverse applications in management science and operations research.

Knowledge management is far-reaching.

The book Scatter Search by Manuel Laguna and Rafael Marti represents a long-awaited "e;missing link"e; in the literature of evolutionary methods.

This book focuses on the latest advances in nonlinear dynamic modeling in economics and finance, mainly-but not solely-based on the description of strategic interaction by using concepts and methods from dynamic and evolutionary game theory.

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an introduction to the fields of decision making, location analysis, and project and machine scheduling.

This book presents interdisciplinary research in software engineering with applications for the social sector.