Operational research

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2019, held in Loughborough, UK, in June 2019.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement.

2019 marked the 85th anniversary of Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg's habilitation thesis "e;Marktform und Gleichgewicht,"e; which formed the roots of bilevel optimization.

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

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.

This book presents a set of papers from the leading edge of current research on productivity analysis.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in industrial history.

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

A large international conference on industrial engineering and operations research was held in Hong Kong, March 21-23, 2007, under the International Multi- Conference ofEngineers andComputerScientists(IMECS)2007.

This book discusses recent theoretical developments in agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization.

The book discusses state-of-the-art applications and methodologies of the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques and approaches.

Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as both developments of and challenges to the social sciences.

This new edition textbook continues down the path that the first edition, winner of the 2013 IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award, successfully carved out.

The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics.

This book discusses recent developments in the vast domain of optimization.

Investitionsvorhaben legen den Grundstein für die zukünftige Entwicklung eines Unternehmens und sind durch Komplexität, Unsicherheit sowie Langfristigkeit gekennzeichnet.

The papers published in this volume focus on some of the most recent devel- ments in complementarity theory, variational principles, stability theory of fu- tional equations, nonsmooth optimization, and various other important topics of nonlinear analysis and optimization.

Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises presents a unified and systematic treatment of manufacturing enterprises.

In a stochastic network, such as those in computer/telecommunications and manufacturing, discrete units move among a network of stations where they are processed or served.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2017), which was held at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany on September 6-8, 2017.

In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Konsum und globalen Märkten dominiert wird, suchen immer mehr Menschen nach Alternativen, die Gemeinschaft und Nachhaltigkeit in den Vordergrund stellen.

Digital technologies have created an opportunity to bring together knowledge management, leadership, and innovation.

A path player game is a new innovative type of game which considers network flow problems from the viewpoint of network owners.

This book starts from the relationship between urban built environment and travel behavior and focuses on analyzing the origin of traffic phenomena behind the data through multi-source traffic big data, which makes the book unique and different from the previous data-driven traffic big data analysis literature.

Fierce competition in today's global market provides a powerful motivation for developing ever more sophisticated logistics systems.

Semidefinite and conic optimization is a major and thriving research area within the optimization community.

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LOGISTICS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS Logistics, the subject of this monograph, is narrowly defmed here to be the science that studies how to convey items from production to consumption in cost- effective ways; some subjects of interest to logistics managers such as reliability and maintenance are not addressed.

Contributions in this volume focus on computationally efficient algorithms and rigorous mathematical theories for analyzing large-scale networks.

This book focuses on research methodologies that apply to business research, particularly for researchers and managers embarking thereon to support managerial decision-making in the industry.

In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits of shorter hours of labour.

Business Economics introduces the theory and practice of economics for non-specialist students new to the topic.

There was much development of both education and industry in post-World War II Britain.

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

The state of the art in fluid-based methods for stability analysis, giving researchers and graduate students command of the tools.

Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical evidence of the effect of these institutional changes on labor productivity growth and injury rates.

This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.

As more and more industries are experiencing digital disruption, using information technology to enable a competitive advantage becomes a critical success factor for all enterprises.

Research Methods for Operations and Supply Chain Management, third edition, is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers, but also a reference book for any researcher in operations and supply chain management (OSCM).

Dynamic programming (DP) has a relevant history as a powerful and flexible optimization principle, but has a bad reputation as a computationally impractical tool.

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This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2018), which was held at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium on September 12 - 14, 2018, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) and the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL).

The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive review of the latest research and development trends at the international level for modeling and optimization of the supplier selection process for different industrial sectors.

This book is intended for graduate students in statistics and industrial mathematics, as well as researchers and practitioners in the field.