Operational research

Technology is not an end in itself, but a way of satisfying human wants.

Experience gained during a ten-year long involvement in modelling, program- ming and application in nonlinear optimization helped me to arrive at the conclusion that in the interest of having successful applications and efficient software production, knowing the structure of the problem to be solved is in- dispensable.

This book covers research trends of data science and management involving cutting edge technologies and novel research directions from diverse fields of industries, business and government sectors.

Machine Learning Tools for Chemical Engineering: Methodologies and Applications examines how machine learning (ML) techniques are applied in the field, offering precise, fast, and flexible solutions to address specific challenges.

Dynamics of Information Systems: Algorithmic Approaches presents recent developments and results found by participants of the Fourth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA on February 20-22, 2012.

Since its opening in 1978, China has undergone radical change.

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als wissen­ schaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebswissen­ schaften (iwb) der Technischen Universität München.

Quantitativeapproachesforsolvingproductionplanningandinventorymanagement problems in industry have gained growing importance in the past years.

The co-author of the monumental bestseller Reengineering the Corporation continues the reengineering revolution with another national bestseller that has already sold more than 165,000 copies in hardcoverReengineering Management is a brilliant, practical and much needed book on the most powerful management idea of the decade.

The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems.

This edited collection addresses the question of which capabilities and competencies enable Behavioral Operational Research to provide sustained improvement to decision processes.

This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium.

Key Concepts in Operations Management is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference.

Column Generation is an insightful overview of the state of the art in integer programming column generation and its many applications.

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Global optimization is one of the fastest developing fields in mathematical optimization.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare is more than a comprehensive introduction toartificial intelligence as a tool in the generation and analysis of healthcare data.

This book introduces readers to the use of R codes for optimization problems.

Most of the scientific methods devised for forest planning support timber production ignoring the existence of forest functions other than wood production.

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines.

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.

This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way.

Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity.

Closed loops depict supply chains for which Original Equipement Manufacturer reintegrate their returned products into their own production network.

Processing information efficiently is critical to the successful operation of modern organizations.

This book provides a framework to help managers go beyond simply fighting fires every day, offering the tools to address the underlying causes of recurring problems and deliver long-term solutions.

Nowadays, decision problems are pervaded with incomplete knowledge, i.

This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance.

This book introduces the advances in synchromodal logistics and provides a framework to classify various optimisation problems in this field.

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Many decision problems in Operations Research are defined on temporal networks, that is, workflows of time-consuming tasks whose processing order is constrained by precedence relations.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the use of neutrosophic sets in multiple criteria decision making problems.

This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two events organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Toulouse, France and Barcelona, Spain, in June and July 2014.

This book provides a guide to businesses on how to use analytics to help drive from ideas to execution.

Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions.

This text, first published in 2007, provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of management research processes.

This book addresses computer scientists, IT specialists, mathematicians, knowledge engineers and programmers, who are engaged in research and practice of multicriteria decision making.

This volume is the second (II) of four under the main themes of Digitizing Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis.

This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis.

This book discusses an emerging area in computer science, IT and management, i.

Strategic Decision Making in Modern Manufacturing introduces and explains the AMBIT (Advanced Manufacturing Business ImplemenTation) approach, which has been developed to bridge the gap between strategic management considerations and the operational effects of technology investment decisions on the manufacturing organisation, so that the likely impact of new manufacturing technology and/or programme implementations can be evaluated, anticipated and accurately predicted.