Operational research

This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management.

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation.

This third volume in the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series challenges us to think again about the implications of gender, embodiment and fluidity for organizing and managing.

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Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Smart Farming reveals how a set of key enabling technologies (KET) related to agronomic management, remote and proximal sensing, data mining, decision-making and automation can be efficiently integrated in one system.

The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Methoden, die geeignet sind, Entscheidungen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen, wie Wirtschaft, Politik, Medizin oder Privatsphäre, mit einem höheren Grad an Rationalität zu treffen.

Aggregation von Information in Verbindung mit einem mehrstufigen Vorgehen ist ein Instrument, um komplexe Planungsprobleme anzugehen.

This book presents the construction and resolution of 50 practical optimization problems and covers an exceptionally wide range, including games-associated problems (Unblock Me, Sudokus), logistical problems, and problems concerning plant distribution, production, operations scheduling, management and resource allocation.

This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques.

This is the first book that sums up test-related modeling of digital circuits and systems by a new structural-decision-diagrams model.

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers.

This book is a comprehensive curation, exposition and illustrative discussion of recent research tools for interpretability of deep learning models, with a focus on neural network architectures.

Many environmental problems resulting from atmospheric, land and water pollution are now widely understood.

Interior Point Methods for Linear Optimization is a comprehensive, thorough textbook on interior point methods (IPMs).

Production costs are being reduced by automation, robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, cost reduction studies and more.

Application of Machine Learning in Smart Agriculture is the first book to present a multidisciplinary look at how technology can not only improve agricultural output, but the economic efficiency of that output as well.

This volume results from the "e;Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.

This book focuses on the analytic principles of business practice and big data.

Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management.

The author presents polyhedral results and exact solution methods for location problems encountered in telecommunications, but which also have applications in other areas, such as transportation and supply chain management.

As the systems which form the fabric of modern society become more complex and more interdependent, the need for the understanding of the behavior of such systems becomes increasingly more essential.

This new edition covers the central concepts of practical optimization techniques, with an emphasis on methods that are both state-of-the-art and popular.

A new lens on growth and a critical set of strategies for navigating a complex worldGrowth is rarely in a straight line.

Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology Examines the newer and emerging models of telecommunications technology that play instrumental roles in providing international economic and societal interconnectivity.

This second edition of a pioneering technical work in biomedical informatics provides a very readable treatment of the deep computational ideas at the foundation of the field.

This book examines optimization problems that in practice involve random model parameters.

Two-person zero-sum game theory deals with situations that are perfectly competitive-there are exactly two decision makers for whom there is no possibility of cooperation or compromise.

This handbook surveys important stochastic problems and models in manufacturing system operations and their stochastic analysis.

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The idea of using models to inform business practice seems appealing, as it suggests the abstraction and control of a large, complex subject by means of a smaller, easily manipulated mechanism.

Management Ideas is a unique guide to the dominant theories influencing management practice in the late 20th century.

This textbook discusses supply chain management and provides a comprehensive overview of all the key activities and issues of supply chain and logistics functions as an integrated discipline.

The Data Quality Assessment Framework shows you how to measure and monitor data quality, ensuring quality over time.

This proceedings set contains 85 selected full papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences - MCO 2015, held on May 11-13, 2015 at Lorraine University, France.

This book explores the impact of industry 4.

Multicultural and multinational teams have become an important strategic and structural element of organizational work in our globalized world today.

This book gathers selected contributions by top Portuguese and international researchers in the field of Operations Research, presented at the 19th Congress of APDIO (Portuguese Association of Operational Research).

Molecular Biomarkers in Cancer Detection and Monitoring of Therapeutics, Volume One, Discovery and Technologies discusses how molecular biomarkers are used to determine predisposition, facilitate detection, improve treatment and offer prevention guidelines for different cancer types.

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.

Industrial, financial, commercial or any kinds of project have at least one common feature: the better organized they are, the higher the profit or the lower the cost.

In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza- tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den- mark, 1992, p.

Jürgen Simon untersucht, wie Ergebnisse ambiguer Entscheidungen durch Gruppenentscheidungen und Kommunikation beeinflusst werden.

This book focuses on analytical and quantitative methods that align improvement opportunities with organizational goals and metrics.