Operational research

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently attracted considerable attention from both research and industrial communities.

Internet and intranet technologies offer tremendous opportunities to bring learning into the mainstream of business.

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

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

Throughout the development of mathematical programming researchers have paid great attention to problems that are described by a single objective that can only be achieved subject to satisfying a set of restrictions or constraints.

The book provides a broad introduction to both the theory and the application of optimization with a special emphasis on the elegance, importance, and usefulness of the parametric self-dual simplex method.

This book is the first comprehensive tutorial on matheuristics.

Become an expert in implementing Azure Functions to work seamlessly with your serverless applicationsKey FeaturesDevelop scalable, robust multi-tier apps without worrying about infrastructure needsDeploy and manage cost-effective and highly available serverless apps using Azure FunctionsAccelerate enterprise-level application development by seamlessly integrating different cloud services with Azure FunctionsBook DescriptionApplication development has evolved from traditional monolithic app development to using serverless options and microservices.

This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking technique for actual organizations.

​Die Energieproduktivität kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) ist gemessen an der Verfügbarkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit innovativer, energieeffizienter Produktionstechniken vergleichsweise gering.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

This book addresses the challenges companies face when different customer value propositions require them to pursue a differentiated supply chain strategy.

In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and social responsibility.

This focuses on the developing field of building probability models with the power of symbolic algebra systems.

This book describes a wide range real-case applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in maritime related subjects including shipping, port, maritime logistics, cruise ports, waterfront developments, and shipping finance, etc.

This proceedings volume gathers selected, blinded peer-reviewed contributions presented at the XXIX International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM), held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 28th to 30th, 2023.

Since I started working in the area of nonlinear programming and, later on, variational inequality problems, I have frequently been surprised to find that many algorithms, however scattered in numerous journals, monographs and books, and described rather differently, are closely related to each other.

There is a wide variety of perspectives for productivity analysis.

This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective.

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

This thesis deals with timing and sizing decisions for production lots, and more precisely, with mathematical models to support optimal tim- ing and sizing decisions.

Air Traffic Management: Economics Regulation and Governance provides the latest insights on approaches and issues surrounding the economic regulation and governance of air traffic management (ATM).

This book provides an understanding of the concept of marketing and its role in business and public organization including the need for scientific marketing analysis.

The aim of this book is to help enable the use of the technique of simulation modelling in the organisation.

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This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2021), which was hosted online by the University of Bern from August 31 to September 3, 2021, and was jointly organized by the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR/ASRO), Germany (GOR e.

Coordination is extremely important in economic, political, and social life.

The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing.

Delivers a strong contribution to the field of research on emotions in organizations offering original pieces of research.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

Modeling Uncertainty: An Examination of Stochastic Theory, Methods, and Applications, is a volume undertaken by the friends and colleagues of Sid Yakowitz in his honor.

Market and Technical Knowledge Integration in R&D-Intensive Companies explores the integration of market and technical knowledge within R&D-intensive companies.

This book studies the urban logistics system from the perspective of reliability, based on the theory of urban logistics and system reliability, with the research of urban logistics system reliability as the main line, with matter element analysis and ant colony algorithm as the main research tools.

Paul Williams, a leading authority on modeling in integer programming, has written a concise, readable introduction to the science and art of using modeling in logic for integer programming.

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

The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the design of computer and communication systems that can aid the management process.

Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline.

Dieses aus drei Einzelbänden bestehende Werk bietet einen umfassenden Überlick über das Gebiet des Operations Research (OR).

In the realm of global commerce, Europe has long been renowned for its exceptional hardware products, dominating markets with its machine tools and luxury automobiles.

The point of departure in the present book is that the decision makers, involved in the evaluation of alternatives under conflicting criteria, express their preferential judgement by estimating ratios of subjective values or differences of the corresponding logarithms, the so-called grades.

Computational Methods in Drug Discovery and Repurposing for Cancer Therapy provides knowledge about ongoing research as well as computational approaches for drug discovery and repurposing for cancer therapy.

This book, "e;Navigating Complexity: AI and Systems Thinking for Smarter Decisions"e; delves into the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and systems thinking to enhance decision-making in complex and dynamic environments.

Kreditentscheidungen stellen hohe Anforderungen an das Finanzwissen und die mentale Leistungsfähigkeit des Kreditsuchenden.

Explore distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts and develop real-time decentralized applications with Ethereum and SolidityKey FeaturesGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchainBuild powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contractsGain advanced insights into cryptography and cryptocurrenciesBook DescriptionBlockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media.

A highly practical and insightful book; it will help you to perform more effectively in a workplace which requires you to function effectively in predominantly adversarial relationships.