Operational research

Implementing a food safety management system (FSMS) is a regulatory requirement for every firm in global food supply chains.

Cognitive and Soft Computing Techniques for the Analysis of Healthcare Data discusses the insight of data processing applications in various domains through soft computing techniques and enormous advancements in the field.

Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease: Therapeutic Applications in Cancer and Inflammatory Disorders presents updated information on the chemistry, signaling of newly derived therapeutic nitric oxide donors/inhibitors, and their complexes in liposomes or nanospheres in both pre-clinical and clinical activities.

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

Multiple criteria decision-making research has developed rapidly and has become a main area of research for dealing with complex decision problems which require the consideration of multiple objectives or criteria.

This book highlights recent compelling research results and trends in various aspects of contemporary mathematics, emphasizing applicabilitions to real-world situations.

This new 4th edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

In decision theory there are basically two appr~hes to the modeling of individual choice: one is based on an absolute representation of preferences leading to a ntDnerical expression of preference intensity.

Quadratic programming is a mathematical technique that allows for the optimization of a quadratic function in several variables.

The enormous practical need for solving global optimization problems coupled with a rapidly advancing computer technology has allowed one to consider problems which a few years ago would have been considered computationally intractable.

This textbook introduces systems science as an entry point to present a basic introduction to research models and methods in management science (operation research).

Jens Heger stellt ein Verfahren vor, das auf der prioritätsregelbasierten Reihenfolgeplanung aufbaut.

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Queueing Theory deals with systems where there is contention for resources, but the demands are only known probabilistically.

This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "e;app"e;, that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

The chapters of this Handbook volume cover nine main topics that are representative of recenttheoretical and algorithmic developments in the field.

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.

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management.

Data mining applications range from commercial to social domains, with novel applications appearing swiftly; for example, within the context of social networks.

This volume contains a selection of papers referring to lectures presented at the symposium "e;Operations Research 2004"e; (OR 2004) held at Tilburg University, September 1-3, 2004.

Stochastic Programming offers models and methods fordecision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain.

With European Monetary Union well underway, Europe is starting to look at nearby countries and culturally closer continents to define its strategies for the future.

This new edition of the well established text Scheduling - Theory, Algorithms, and Systems provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world.

26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering contains the papers presented at the 26th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Event held at Portoroz Slovenia, from June 12th to June 15th, 2016.

This volume of research papers comprises the proceedings of the first International Conference on Mathematics of Neural Networks and Applications (MANNA), which was held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from July 3rd to 7th, 1995 and attended by 116 people.

This book presents a novel approach to the formulation and solution of three classes of problems: the fully fuzzy transportation problem, the fully fuzzy transshipment problem, and fully fuzzy solid transportation problem.

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades.

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

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics.

This textbook provides an introduction to the use and understanding of optimization and modeling for upper-level undergraduate students in engineering and mathematics.

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

While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement.

Management and organizational history has grown into an established field of research with competing and contrasting approaches and methods that are relevant for management and organization studies.

This book sheds light on one of the biggest development issues of our time: how the rise of entrepreneurship and the associated mindset is likely to unfold in unexpected places and change socio-economic and political fortunes.

This book is about the interplay of theory and experimentation on group decision making in economics.

Handbook of Production Scheduling concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings.

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.

This book addresses two-person zero-sum finite games in which the payoffs in any situation are expressed with fuzzy numbers.

Die Informationsverarbeitung nimmt in den Unternehmen heute eine Schlüsselstellung ein.

Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures focuses on two important aspects of CIS, management and engineering.

Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become standard optimization techniques.

This book is on applications of game theory.

Open internationalization is a concept that brings a new perspective on the process of firm internationalization.

A thoroughly tested, distinctive alternative to the appraisal process that draws on well-established principles of organizational behavior.

Tom Peters is the management guru's management guru.

This volume contains a selection of 128 papers presented in lectures during the international scientific symposium "e;Operations Research 2005"e; (OR 2005) held at the University of Bremen, September 7-9, 2005.