Operational research

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques.

This book pulls together many perspectives on the theory, methods and practice of drawing judgments from panels of experts in assessing risks and making decisions in complex circumstances.

This 2nd edition is a thoroughly revised and augmented version of the book with the same title published in 1999.

This book describes an effective decision-making and planning architecture for enhancing the navigation capabilities of automated vehicles in the presence of non-detailed, open-source maps.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2020, organised in Zaragoza, Spain, in May 2020.

This book covers game-theoretic approaches to analyzing policies for environmental regulation in the power sector.

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains.

Like norms, translation invariant functions are a natural and powerful tool for the separation of sets and scalarization.

This book includes a spectrum of concepts, such as performance, productivity, operations research, econometrics, and data science, for the practically and theoretically important areas of 'productivity analysis/data envelopment analysis' and 'data science/big data'.

This book highlights some of the latest research advances and cutting-edge analyses of real-world case studies on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management from diverse international contexts, while also identifying business applications for the latest findings and innovations in operations management and the decision sciences.

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

This book has resulted from the activities of IFAC TC 5.

This book offers an introduction to optimization theory in normed spaces.

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications.

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks.

This textbook offers graduate students a concise introduction to the classic notions of convex optimization.

This book introduces readers to the principles of intelligent decision support systems (IDSS) and how to build them with MiniZinc, a free, open-source constraint programming language.

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.

This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE 2019), which took place in Montreal, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2019.

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 offers a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources and optimization strategies in hybrid power systems (HPSs).

This book considers the problem of determining how many barrels of crude oil an oil-producing and exporting country should produce annually for export-along with several other important problems that decision-makers in the crude oil industry face-and discusses procedures for finding optimum solutions for them.

Seaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways.

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices.

This textbook covers the fundamental mechanisms of the Six Sigma philosophy, while showing how this approach is used in solving problems that affect the variability and quality of processes and outcomes in business settings.

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service line.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities.

This book focuses on the adoption of a Dynamic Performance Management (DPM) approach to support the planning and management of urban transportation systems.

This handbook gathers state-of-the-art research on optimization problems in power distribution systems, covering classical problems as well as the challenges introduced by distributed power generation and smart grid resources.

The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area.

This book reports on an operational management approach to improving bike-sharing systems by compensating for fluctuating demand patterns.

The contributions included in the volume are drawn from presentations at ODS2019 - International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, which was the 49th annual meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO) held at Genoa, Italy, on 4-7 September 2019.

Solving nonsmooth optimization (NSO) problems is critical in many practical applications and real-world modeling systems.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design.

The book presents the proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2019), which took place in Krynica Zdroj, Poland, on October 8-10, 2019.

This book offers an essential review of central theories, current research and applications in the field of numerical representations of ordered structures.

This book summarizes years of research in the field of fuzzy relational programming, with a special emphasis on geometric models.

This book is a further development of the theory of parametric control.

The book offers a comprehensive survey of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets.

This book is dedicated to the systematization and development of models, methods, and algorithms for queuing systems with correlated arrivals.

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd AUE international research conference, AUEIRC 2018, which was organized by the American University in the Emirates, Dubai, and held on November 13th-15th, 2018.

This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making.

This book aims to revisit the "e;traditional"e; interaction between channel strategies and the marketing mix in a connected world.

"e;Social Simulation for a Digital Society"e; provides a cross-section of state-of-the-art research in social simulation and computational social science.

This volume offers state-of-the-art research in service science and its related research, education and practice areas.

This book deals with the choice of methods to be applied in the decision processes within organizations.

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries.

The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area.

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments.