Operational research

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science is to provide decision makers and problem solvers in business, industry, government and academia with a comprehensive overview of the wide range of ideas, methodologies, and synergistic forces that combine to form the pre-eminent decision-aiding fields of operations research and management science (OR/MS).

If you're a developer looking to build a distributed, resilient, scalable, high-performance application, you may be evaluating distributed SQL and NoSQL solutions.

This textbook provides a unique and original understanding on innovation and on product design and development, and on their tight interconnections.

This book describes a set of hybrid fuzzy models showing how to use them to deal with incomplete and/or vague information in different kind of decision-making problems.

Technology Commercialization: DEA and Related Analytical Methods for Evaluating The Use and Implementation of Technical Innovation examines both general Research & Development commercialization and targeted new product innovation.

An accessible introduction to optimization analysis using spreadsheets Updated and revised, Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, Third Edition emphasizes model building skills in optimization analysis.

Collateral - generally defined as an asset used to provide security for a lender's loan - is an important feature of credit contracts and all the available evidence suggests that its use is getting more pervasive.

This book presents contemporary issues and challenges in finance and risk management in a time of rapid transformation due to technological advancements.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Modelle, in denen die endogenen Variablen von Erwartungen über diese Variablen abhängen, durch Annahmen an die Informationen der Marktteilnehmer geschlossen werden können.

This book delves into the fundamental theoretical aspects of reliability analysis, focusing on various probabilistic models.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear programming, featuring a broad range of applications and solution methods in the field of continuous optimization.

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This book provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings.

Contemporary Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Precision Medicine Approach summarizes current knowledge and provides evidenced-based practice recommendations on how to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Decision makers in managerial and public organizations often encounter de- cision problems under conflict or competition, because they select strategies independently or by mutual agreement and therefore their payoffs are then affected by the strategies of the other decision makers.

Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions.

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The Creative Industries have recently come into the focus of urban development strategies and economic policy.

The book introduces readers to some of the latest advances in and approaches to decision-making methods based on thermodynamic characters and hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations.

Control charts are widely used in industry to monitor processes that are far from Zero-Defect (ZD), and their use in a near Zero-Defect manufacturing environment poses many problems.

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

This monograph addresses several critical problems to the operations of shipping lines and ports, and provides algorithms and mathematical models for use by shipping lines and port authorities for decision support.

Understanding both leadership and change have been recurrent and popular themes within the business, management and organization studies literature.

This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today's sharing economy from an operations management perspective.

Architects and engineers can build models to test their ideas - why not managers?

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Knowledge Unplugged announces the results of a major survey on knowledge management practice within the most influential companies in the world, by the most influential management consultancy group in the world.

This book presents the proceedings of the Eighth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is often overlooked in empirical work such as diagnostic tests to determine whether the data conform with technology which, in turn, is important in identifying technical change, or finding which types of DEA models allow data transformations, including dealing with ordinal data.

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.

Sustainable Production and Logistics: Modeling and AnalysisSubject Guide: Engineering - Industrial & ManufacturingThis book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision making under uncertainty by combining Test Information Theory with Expected Utility Theory.

This book introduces the basic concepts of fuzzy collaborative forecasting and clustering, including its methodology, system architecture, and applications.

In today's data-driven world, earning the Tableau Certified Data Analyst credential signals your ability to connect, analyze, and communicate insights using one of the industry's leading visualization platforms.

The present book fmds its roots in the International Conference on Methods and Applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in Mons in May 1997.

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

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

This book offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight to navigate through complexity.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

Inside the Multi-Generational Family is an inside look at how familial relationships affect the success or the failure of the family business.

All project stakeholders have different needs, objectives, responsibilities and priorities.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of semiconductor supply chain localization, offering insights into the formulation of effective strategies and ways to enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of semiconductor manufacturers through supply chain localization.

This book systematically examines and quantifies industrial problems by assessing the complexity and safety of large systems.