Operational research

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

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors.

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures.

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy methods for solving flow tasks in both transportation and networks.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.

This book deals with complex problems in the fields of logistics and supply chain management and discusses advanced methods, especially from the field of computational intelligence (CI), for solving them.

This book systematically studies the stochastic non-cooperative differential game theory of generalized linear Markov jump systems and its application in the field of finance and insurance.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016.

This book is dedicated to the issues and complexities of industrial services supply chain management.

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems.

In scheduling theory, the models that have attracted considerable attention during the last two decades allow the processing times to be variable, i.

This book presents a broad range of innovative applications and case studies in all areas of management and engineering, including public administration, finance, marketing, engineering, transportation, and energy systems.

This volume collects research papers addressing topical issues in economics and management with a particular focus on dynamic models which allow to analyze and foster the decision making of firms in dynamic complex environments.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to fuzzy statistics and fuzzy decision-making techniques.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP.

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.

This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2016, held in Banff, Canada, in May/June 2016.

This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background.

Noteworthy results, proof techniques, open problems and conjectures in generalized (edge-) connectivity are discussed in this book.

This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint.

This book presents recent results on positivity and optimization of polynomials in non-commuting variables.

This book focuses on some of the most energy-consuming HVAC systems; illuminating huge opportunities for energy savings in buildings that operate with these systems.

This book provides a broad coverage of the recent advances in robustness analysis in decision aiding, optimization, and analytics.

Thisbook gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the 4th InternationalSymposium and 26th National Conference of the Hellenic Operational ResearchSociety.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second InternationalConference on Decision Support Systems Technology, ICDSST 2016, held inPlymouth, UK, May 23-25.

Thistextbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective.

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

The goal in putting together this unique compilation was to present the current status of the solutions to some of the most essential open problems in pure and applied mathematics.

This book presents the underlying theory, model development, and applications of network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in a systematic way.

This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering.

The book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of fully fuzzy linear programming.

This book is intended as atribute to Gianluca Spina, the influential and inspiring Professorof Business Management & Organization and Supply Chain Management at theSchool of Management of Politecnico di Milano, who very sadly passed away earlyin 2015.

This book studies the approximate solutions of optimization problems in the presence of computational errors.

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

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning.

This book introduces methods of robust optimization in multivariateadaptive regression splines (MARS) and Conic MARS in order to handleuncertainty and non-linearity.

The book provides a thorough treatment of set functions, games and capacities as well as integrals with respect to capacities and games, in a mathematical rigorous presentation and in view of application to decision making.

This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about.

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

This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies.

The main objective of this book is to provide the necessary background to work with big data by introducing some novel optimization algorithms and codes capable of working in the big data setting as well as introducing some applications in big data optimization for both academics and practitioners interested, and to benefit society, industry, academia, and government.

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

This volume chronicles the high impact research career of Harvey Greenberg (1940-2018), and in particular, it reviews historical contributions, presents current research projects, and suggests future pursuits.