Operational research

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.

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs.

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.

This book provides a concise introduction into the fundamentals and applied techniques of multiple criteria decision making in the finance sector.

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

This book provides detailed guidance on how sustainability, in terms of the triple bottom line, can be developed in operations strategies via human resource management (HRM) and organizational practices such as teamwork, training and employee involvement.

This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries.

Eurocorridors are characterized by intensive transport flows and dynamic patterns of establishment and household locations.

Analysis, assessment, and data management are core competencies for operation research analysts.

This book provides the readers with a thorough and systematic introduction to hesitant fuzzy theory.

This book presents papers by experts in the field of Industrial Engineering, covering topics in business strategy; modelling and simulation in operations research; logistics and production; service systems; innovation and knowledge; and project management.

This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning.

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security.

This book presents an integrated approach to monitoring projects in progress using Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management combined with Schedule Risk Analysis.

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

This book presents comprehensive state-of-the-art theoretical analysis of the fundamental Newtonian and Newtonian-related approaches to solving optimization and variational problems.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services.

This book reports on the development and validation of a generic defeasible logic programming framework for carrying out argumentative reasoning in Semantic Web applications (GF@SWA).

This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems.

"e;Ecosystem Assessment and Fuzzy Systems Management"e; is the edited outcome of the 3rd International Conference on Ecosystem Assessment Management (ICEAM) and the Workshop on the Construction of an Early Warning Platform for Eco-tourism (WCEWPE) in Hainan on May 5-12, 2013, Haikou, China.

The use of social media tools in the enterprise is expanding rapidly and yet, firms are still unclear about the overall value of this activity and how best to facilitate useful outcomes.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies.

This book reports on cutting-edge research carried out within the context of the EU-funded Dicode project, which aims at facilitating and augmenting collaboration and decision making in data-intensive and cognitively complex settings.

This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation.

The 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2012) showcased research on human locomotion.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in theory and practice regarding similarity and distance measures for intuitionistic fuzzy sets.

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet.

The objective of the book is to give a selection from the papers, which summarize several important results obtained within the framework of the Jozsef Hatvany Doctoral School operating at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

The International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE) provided a timely opportunity to discuss statistical analysis and operations management issues in health care delivery systems.

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With this book, distinguished and notable contributors wish to honor Professor Charles S.

The European Conference on Complex Systems, held under the patronage of the Complex Systems Society, is an annual event that has become the leading European conference devoted to complexity science.

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This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of research fields such as, e.

The fields of similarity and preference are still broadening due to the exploration of new fields of application.

Mechanics have played an important role in mathematics, from infinitesimal calculus, calculus of variations, partial differential equations and numerical methods (finite elements).

This book presents the latest technologies and operational methods available to support sustainable freight transport practices.

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

This book examines application and methods to incorporating stochastic parameter variations into the optimization process to decrease expense in corrective measures.

This book highlights state-of-the-art developments in metaheuristics research.

Collaborative Distribution Considering Economic and Environmental Performance provides guidance on how to make the operations of a company more efficient and more eco-friendly.

The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

Logistics and supply chain management is facing disruptive economic, technological and climate change developments that require new strategies.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This is a book about how management and control decisions are made by persons who collaborate and possibly use the support of an information system.