Operational research

All project stakeholders have different needs, objectives, responsibilities and priorities.

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 provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs).

Polynomial extremal problems (PEP) constitute one of the most important subclasses of nonlinear programming models.

This book provides a framework for governing policy implementation by various stakeholders during the delivery of infrastructure projects.

Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skillsWith the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products.

Managing safety of diverse systems requires decision-making under uncertainties and risks.

This book addresses business process prioritisation - a problem in Business Process Management research that is often ill-structured and complex.

Thisbook shows how common operation management methods and algorithms can beextended to deal with vague or imprecise information in decision-makingproblems.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

Triggered largely by claims that small businesses were the main source of new jobs, an 'explosion' of interest in enterprise, entrepreneurs and small business has led to the establishment of a conventional wisdom about enterprise.

Fundamentals and important results of vector optimization in a general setting are presented in this book.

This valuable source for graduate students and researchers provides a comprehensive introduction to current theories and applications in optimization methods and network models.

Driven by the request for increased productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness, modern civilization increasingly has created high-performance discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs).

?

This book considers a broad range of areas from decision making methods applied in the contexts of Risk, Reliability and Maintenance (RRM).

The book discusses the study and implementation of controlling in the modern enterprise from the perspective of Industry 4.

The goal of Inventory Management will be to explain the dynamics of inventory management's principles, concepts, and techniques as they relate to the entire supply chain (customer demand, distribution, and product transformation processes).

Sustainability of Products, Processes and Supply Chains: Theory and Applications presents the recent theoretical developments and applications on the interface between sustainability and process systems engineering.

This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making.

Experts in operations research and developers of softwareapplication systems have been treading separate paths formany years.

Fuzzy geometric programming was originated by the author in the Proceed- ing of the second IFSA conferences, 1987(Tokyo) 14 years ago.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities.

This textbook provides an introduction to the growing interdisciplinary field of computational science.

Discover recent powerful advances in the theory, methods, and applications of decision and risk analysis Focusing on modern advances and innovations in the field of decision analysis (DA), Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis presents theories and methods for making, improving, and learning from significant practical decisions.

In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes.

Professional practice in the design and execution of employee survey programs has evolved tremendously over the past decade.

This book offers an introduction to fuzzy sets theory and their operations, with a special focus on aggregation and negation functions.

The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011.

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.

Implement DevOps for Salesforce and explore its featuresKey FeaturesLearn DevOps principles and techniques for enterprise operations in SalesforceImplement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools such as Jenkins and Ant scriptUse the Force.

This book presents a compilation of over 200 numerical problems and solutions that students can use to learn, practice and master the Inventory Control and Management concepts.

Success in business depends on two broad management skills: 'doing the right thing' (choosing the right projects) and 'doing things right' (good project management).

This book constructs a model of the knowledge value chain in the university and analyzes the university knowledge value-added mechanism in the process of Industry-University Collaborative Innovation.

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems.

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems.

Work with the powerful subscription software, Office 365 to increase your organization's efficiency by managing file sharing, email exchange and much more.

This expanded second edition of the 2014 textbook features dedicated sections on action and observation, so that the reader can combine the use of the developed theoretical basis with practical guidelines for deployment.

If you think more strategically than your competitors, your company will win the competitive battle in the mid or long term.

For too long, cooperatives have been considered marginal players in the global economy, and as unrealistic venues for the aspirations of new and experienced members of the labour force.

The spreadsheet has become a ubiquitous engineering tool, and Microsoft Excel is the standard spreadsheet software package.

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods.

This book presents various concepts and applications related to risk-conscious operations management.