Operational research

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.

Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded Systems with UML and MARTE explains how to apply the complex MARTE standard in practical situations.

Role of Tumor Microenvironment in Breast Cancer and Targeted Therapies discusses the current understanding of breast cancer tumor microenvironment components, their role in tumorigenicity and the development of therapeutic resistance, along with updates on recent advances.

As the era of ever expanding markets and ample resources ends, governments and business will have to behave differently.

Effective decision-making while trading off the constraints and conflicting multiple objectives under rapid technological developments, massive generation of data, and extreme volatility is of paramount importance to organizations to win over the time-based competition today.

Stefan Gegg stellt in dieser Arbeit eine völlig neue Controllingkonzeption zur Erfassung, Messung und Bewertung komplexer Leistungen vor.

This is the first book covering original information on the mathematical science of such the artifacts as 3M&I-body system, in which "e;3M"e; means human, material/machine, money, and "e;I"e; means the information/method in nature versus artifacts.

Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented when any type of catastrophic event takes place.

This book provides the readers with a thorough and systematic introduction to hesitant fuzzy theory.

This book covers several new areas in the growing field of analytics with some innovative applications in different business contexts, and consists of selected presentations at the 6th IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2023, which held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 19-21, 2023.

This book, now in its second edition, provides a valuable compendium of problems as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and practitioners of operations research and management science.

Managers are often under great pressure to improve the performance of their organizations.

At the beginning of each year, there is a deluge of top-10 lists on just about every subject you can imagine.

With increased globalization and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses as it involves a company's worldwide interests and suppliers rather than simply a local or national orientation.

This book broadly explains the requirement to focus on core components in a business and provides a case study of open-pit mining operations throughout the book to understand the management perspective of large organizations.

This book lays out a foundation and taxonomy for Behavioral Decision Analysis, featuring representative work across various domains.

LEVERAGE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MAXIMUM PROFITDo you have a global supply chain strategy designed for the long run?

Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes.

The book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain analytics covering management, modeling, and technology perspectives.

This book offers a new perspective on human decision-making by comparing the established methods in decision science with innovative modelling at the level of neurons and neural interactions.

The basic notion underlying this monograph - budget or revenue constrained models of production - we owe to Ronald W.

Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years.

Publication of the Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation marks a milestone in the evolution of the group decision and negotiation (GDN) eld.

Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Processes provides a theoretical and practical introduction to decision criteria and inventory processes.

The integrated application of effective approaches in supply chain networks and related data analysis is key to efficient, sustainable, and risk-averse supply chains.

This book presents the mathematical theory of vector variational inequalities and their relations with vector optimization problems.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 15th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was hosted by The Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil, from 15--18 August 2021This book covers a wide range of topics in engineering asset management, including: strategy and standards;sustainability and resiliency;servitisation and Industry 4.

Metagraphs and their Applications is a presentation of metagraph theory and its applications that begins by defining a metagraph and its uses.

Although the dial-a-ride problem currently plays a crucial role in providing transportation services to specific demographics such as the elderly, those with serious illnesses, or individuals with limited mobility due to disabilities, its potential impact on the overall mobility of the population remains underexplored.

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium on "e;Decision processes in Economics"e; which was held in Modena (Italy) on 9-10 October 1989.

The closing decades of the twentieth century have been characterized as a period of disruption and discontinuity in which the structure and meaning of economy, polity, and society have been radically altered.

The connected dominating set has been a classic subject studied in graph theory since 1975.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Aimed at information managers in organisations including local/state government, libraries and financial services.

Operations may not run the world but make the world run!

Bio-Inspired Strategies for Modeling and Detection in Diabetes Mellitus Treatment focuses on bio-inspired techniques such as modelling to generate control algorithms for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

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.

Work with the powerful subscription software, Office 365 to increase your organization's efficiency by managing file sharing, email exchange and much more.

Billions of dollars are tied up in the inventories of manufacturing companies which cause large (interest) costs.

Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms.

1 Facility Location Problems The location problem has been with humans for all of their history.

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

Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and decision procedures do not behave as expected.

With the pressure of time-based competition increasing, and customers demanding faster service, availability of service parts becomes a critical component of manufacturing and servicing operations.