Operational research

Strategies for Quasi-Monte Carlo builds a framework to design and analyze strategies for randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC).

This book presents various methods for sustainability assessment of energy systems, under various different conditions and scenarios.

Spatial Capture-Recapture provides a comprehensive how-to manual with detailed examples of spatial capture-recapture models based on current technology and knowledge.

The Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection contains real-life scenarios from leading companies including Volvo, Vortex, Honda of America, Green Cargo and Swedish Transport Administration.

Till Albert presents amachine learning based approach to harnessing information contained in big datafrom different media sources such as patents, scientific publications, or theinternet.

This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand.

This book examines multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) and presents the Sequential Iterative Modelling for Urban Systems (SIMUS) as a method to be used for strategic decision making.

This book examines cross-chain control centers (4C), an ambitious concept in supply chain management and logistics that is intended to foster collaboration between different supply chains to increase efficiency.

Thebookisbasedonseveralyearsofexperienceofbothauthorsinteaching linear models at various levels.

The present volume is a collective monograph devoted to applications of the optimal design theory in optimization and statistics.

The purpose of this book is to introduce and explain research at the boundary between two fields that view problem solving from different perspectives.

This book aims to provide a practical guide by a set of real world applications of grey systems to social networks, energy management, transportation, natural disaster management, etc.

Managers are often under great pressure to improve the performance of their organizations.

This book concerns the theory of optimal transport (OT) and its applications to solving problems in geometric optics.

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe.

The problems of urban traffic in the industrially developed countries have been at the top of the priority list for a long time.

This volume presents advanced techniques to modeling markets, with a wide spectrum of topics, including advanced individual demand models, time series analysis, state space models, spatial models, structural models, mediation, models that specify competition and diffusion models.

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success 50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including: Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life Cycle and OrganizationsLearning the Project Management ProcessesIntegrating Project ManagementManaging the Project ScopeManaging the Project ScheduleManaging Project CostsManaging Project QualityManaging Project Human ResourcesManaging Project CommunicationsManaging Project RisksManaging Project ProcurementThe PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 2-3, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey.

The disciplines of computer science and operations research (OR) have been linked since their origins, each contributing to the dramatic advances of the other.

Real-life decisions are usually made in the state of uncertainty such as randomness and fuzziness.

Of all the sciences and social sciences, management is the one that most deliberately turns its back on the past.

There is a wide variety of perspectives for productivity analysis.

The latest edition of International Economics improves and builds upon the popular features of previous editions.

As the era of ever expanding markets and ample resources ends, governments and business will have to behave differently.

Claudio Ciborra was one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of information systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

This updated and expanded second edition adds the most recent advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving special emphasis to decision support tools usable under uncertainty.

Das Buch zeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen Unternehmensrisiken zwischen den Gesellschaftern eines Unternehmens effizient geteilt werden und welche Eigenschaften entsprechende Teilungsregeln aufweisen.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

The sixth edition provides expanded Discussion and Comments and References sections at the end of each chapter, creating a spotlight on practical applications of the theory presented in that chapter.

Integer Prograw~ing is one of the most fascinating and difficult areas in the field of Mathematical Optimization.

The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements.

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, combines the main features of Game Theory, covering most of the fundamental theoretical aspects under the cooperative and non-cooperative approaches, with the procedures of Agent-Based Modeling for studying complex systems composed of a large number of interacting entities with many degrees of freedom.

The Fifth Purdue International Symposium on Statistical Decision The- was held at Purdue University during the period of ory and Related Topics June 14-19,1992.

There are some events in life that are inevitable, and the emergence of problems in the workplace is one.

This book contains three well-written research tutorials that inform the graduate reader about the forefront of current research in multi-agent optimization.

Transform machine-generated data into valuable business insights using the powers of SplunkKey FeaturesExplore the all-new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.

This pioneering book on food study pursues an interdisciplinary approach to service science and the service engineering field.

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.