Operational research

This book highlights new and original contributions on Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization both from the theoretical point of view and from applications in all fields.

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

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

This textbook teaches the basic concepts and methods of project management but also explains how to convert them to useful results in practice.

This book presents the theory and methods of flexible and generalized uncertainty optimization.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint 2018 National Conferences of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and the Defence Operations Research Symposium (DORS).

This book covers a selection of fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control.

This book examines the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, its varied uses, as well as its limitations for solving real-world scenarios.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

This book presents healthcare logistics solutions that have been successfully implemented at a variety of healthcare facilities.

Marking 94 years since its first appearance, this book provides an annotated translation of Sainte-Lague's seminal monograph Les reseaux (ou graphes), drawing attention to its fundamental principles and ideas.

This Palgrave Pivot presents tournament design mainly within the axioms of incentive compatibility and fairness.

This book helps readers understand the main issues, challenges, strategies, and solution methods in Aggregate Planning (AP), an important part of Supply Chain Management.

This book is focused on quality management, and four different lenses which can be used to explore the phenomenon.

This handbook includes three parts, corresponding to the following three domains of OR/MS research related to sustainability: (i) Systems Design, Innovation, and Technology, (ii) Manufacturing, Logistics, and Transportation, and (iii) Sustainable Natural Resource Management.

This volume chronicles the high impact research career of Harvey Greenberg (1940-2018), and in particular, it reviews historical contributions, presents current research projects, and suggests future pursuits.

This book highlights quantitative risk assessment and modeling methods for assessing health risks caused by air pollution, as well as characterizing and communicating remaining uncertainties.

This book presents the multi-criteria approach to decision support, as well as the various multi-criteria tools to help avoid multi-objective optimization.

This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models.

This book addresses new concepts, methods, algorithms, modeling, and applications of green supply chain, inventory control problems, assignment problems, transportation problem, linear problems and new information related to optimization for the topic from the theoretical and applied viewpoints of neutrosophic sets and logic.

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.

This book examines inventory and production strategies that can reduce unexpected breakdown costs.

This book presents a consistent and complete framework for studying the risk management of a pension fund.

Intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students as well as scientists and engineers, this textbook presents a multi-disciplinary view of optimization, providing a thorough examination of algorithms, methods, techniques, and tools from diverse areas of optimization.

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

This book examines supply and value chains in African agriculture, providing both a thorough analysis of existing practices and practical business models for future development.

The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby's cybernetics.

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

This book analyses decision-making in dynamic economic environments.

Data and its processed state 'information' have become an indispensable resource for virtually all aspects of business, education, etc.

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 first book on Maritime Informatics describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in developing innovative service systems.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on responsible operations practices.

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).

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to decision-making in an MCDM framework.

This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing.

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

This research-oriented book presents key contributions on architecting the digital transformation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2020, which was planned to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 7-11, 2020.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2019), which was held at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, on September 4-6, 2019, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) the Austrian Operations Research Society (OGOR), and the Swiss Operational Research Society (SOR/ASRO).

The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

This textbook provides a detailed analysis of operation and planning problems faced by virtual power plants participating in different electricity markets.

This book introduces readers to the novel concept of spherical fuzzy sets, showing how these sets can be applied in practice to solve various decision-making problems.

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

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities.