Operational research

Antanas ~ilinskas was born on January 5, 1946 in Lithuania.

Bilevel programming problems are hierarchical optimization problems where the constraints of one problem (the so-called upper level problem) are defined in part by a second parametric optimization problem (the lower level problem).

Technology plays a critical role in the management of health care, the system, its delivery and its organizations.

Neuere Entwicklungen der Entscheidungstheorie, die in der deutschsprachigen Literatur bislang noch kaum Beachtung fanden, sind Gegenstand dieses Buchs.

This volume is the third (III) of four under the main themes of Digitizing Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The book offers a transdisciplinary eco-systemic framework for analysis of ecosystems.

Discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDs) permeate our world, being of great importance in modern manufacturing processes, transportation and various forms of computer and communications networking.

Traditional policy analysis approaches are characterized by a focus on system modeling and choosing among policy alternatives.

The book features contributions that address both environmental economics and environmental management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2019, held in Madeira, Portugal, in May 2019.

Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.

Transportation management in today's consumer goods industry can be characterized by a high proportion of outsourced transportation services.

This book presents a study of the rail travel process, where passengers under normal (non-emergency) conditions choose their own itinerary considering the offered timetable, travel expenses, comfort, potential risks, quality of service and other factors.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2021, which was planned to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 6-10, 2021.

Das Buch ist eine Einführung in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie.

This proceedings book presents selected contributions from the XVIII Congress of APDIO (the Portuguese Association of Operational Research) held in Valenca on June 28-30, 2017.

Emilia Gra develops a solution method which can provide fast and near-optimal solutions to realistic large-scale two-stage stochastic problems in disaster management.

Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System presents an integrated approach for the design of a product family and its assembly system, whose main principles consider the product family as a fictitious unique product for which the assembly system is to be devised.

Devoted to the structure of approximate solutions of discrete-time optimal control problems and approximate solutions of dynamic discrete-time two-player zero-sum games, this book presents results on properties of approximate solutions in an interval that is independent lengthwise, for all sufficiently large intervals.

All-in-One is All You Need!

Every organization, business, and manager is unique, and each demands an individually tailored management style.

How People Negotiate brings together a set of negotiation stories, accompanied by an integrative overview.

Contemporary Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Precision Medicine Approach summarizes current knowledge and provides evidenced-based practice recommendations on how to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Traditional microeconomic theory has much to offer a manager.

The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.

This edited book discusses creative and recent developments of fuzzy systems and its real-life applications of multiple criteria decision making.

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.

Grid Resource Management: State of the Art and Future Trends presents an overview of the state of the field and describes both the real experiences and the current research available today.

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

This book explores the updated version of the GLOBAL algorithm which contains improvements for a local search algorithm and new Java implementations.

Leverage the power of Tableau 2019.

Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences.

Presenting a novel Systems Thinking methodology, this book serves as an essential guide to all those researching and practicing in a management, decision-making, or supervisory position who are facing multi-dimensional complex problems.

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING A GREEN SUPPLY CHAINThis detailed resource provides a stage-by-stage production methodology within the life cycle of a product to ensure environmental compliance and economic goals.

Fashion is a glamorous industry, one of beauty, money, fame, and huge profits.

In these lecture notes which grew out of my lectures at the Honours classes of Honash University, I have attempted to develop queueing and storage problems from a unified viewpoint.

This book aims to stimulate debate in the growing and highly controversial area of measuring scholarly work.

In Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems acknowledged risk authority Tony Cox shows all risk practitioners how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can be used to improve risk management decisions and policies.

Current Molecular Targets of Heterocyclic Compounds for Cancer Therapy discusses recently developed treatments based on molecular targets which are genetically altered in cancer cells and are essential for tumor development and survival.

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

Das Lehrbuch behandelt einerseits die präskriptiv-normative Entscheidungstheorie, wie sie zur grundlegenden Ausbildung in verschiedenen Bachelorstudiengängen gehört.

In the last twenty-five years, game theory has been applied to a growing number of practical problems: from antitrust analysis to monetary policy; from the design of auction institutions to the structuring of incentives within firms; from patent races to dispute resolution.

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

Ulf Speer entwickelt zwei Optimierungsverfahren fur die Reihenfolgeplanung von verschiedenen automatischen Lagerkransystemen und vergleicht sie quantitativ anhand eines Simulationsmodells.