Operational research

33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering: ESCAPE-33, Volume 52 contains the papers presented at the 33rd European Symposium of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Athens, Greece.

This book discusses corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility and business ethics across Africa generally, and Botswana specifically.

Cybersecurity Operations and Fusion Centers: A Comprehensive Guide to SOC and TIC Strategy by Dr.

Transform machine-generated data into valuable business insights using the powers of SplunkKey FeaturesExplore the all-new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.

The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach.

Alexander Hubl develops models for production planning and analyzes performance indicators to investigate production system behaviour.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2018, held in Nanjing, China, in June 2018.

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security.

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.

If you think more strategically than your competitors, your company will win the competitive battle in the mid or long term.

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications.

Many social or economic conflict situations can be modeled by specifying the alternatives on which the involved parties may agree, and a special alternative which summarizes what happens in the event that no agreement is reached.

The 5th edition of this classic textbook covers the central concepts of practical optimization techniques, with an emphasis on methods that are both state-of-the-art and popular.

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement.

This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands.

This book is a reaction to the reductionist and exploitative ideas dominating the mainstream contemporary management discourse and practice, and an attempt to broaden the horizons of possibility for both managers and organization scholars.

This book presents a systematic review of multidimensional normalization methods and addresses problems frequently encountered when using various methods and ways to eliminate them.

This book helps apply managerial accounting techniques to problems in areas including that of cost estimation, cost control, product pricing, and business segment discontinuation.

This book examines multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) and presents the Sequential Iterative Modelling for Urban Systems (SIMUS) as a method to be used for strategic decision making.

This book focuses on two-time-scale Markov chains in discrete time.

This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey data analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching.

This book presents an integrated approach to monitoring projects in progress using Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management combined with Schedule Risk Analysis.

This book explores optimization under uncertainty and related applications in agriculture, sustainable supply chains and the agrifood industry.

This volume is devoted to models and methods in multiple objectives decision making.

Linear programming (LP), modeling, and optimization are very much the fundamentals of OR, and no academic program is complete without them.

Providing a comprehensive overview of various methods and applications in decision engineering, this book presents chapters written by a range experts in the field.

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries?

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Singapore on 28-31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of Covid-19 on infrastructure systems.

It is commonly quoted that the majority of change initiatives fail and equally common is the reasoning that failure is due to a lack of adequate planning and robust processes to deliver change to the organisation.

This book is the first work to conduct the emergency logistics optimization problem under the epidemic environment (whether natural or man-made), which provides a new perspective for the application of optimization theory.

Presents an accessible approach to the cost estimation tools, concepts, and techniques needed to support analytical and cost decisions Written with an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field.

This book brings together a diverse range of findings on current and emerging business concerns when the authors were developing a series of 12 working Analytic Research Consortium (ARC) White Papers.

Unlock the secrets to optimizing manufacturing processes with this essential guide to process validation.

In a relatively short period of time Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance.

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2023), held in Delft, the Netherlands, from 8 to 9 June 2023.

This book moves beyond a general introduction to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its basic elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation).

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship.

Get to grips with the advanced features of Apex programming for Salesforce developers using this comprehensive guideKey FeaturesDiscover how to build reliable applications with Apex by avoiding common mistakes and pitfallsLearn how to use the different asynchronous programming tools in ApexProfile and improve the performance of your Apex codeBook DescriptionAs applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations, developers are shifting focus to Apex, Salesforce's proprietary programming language.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.

This book explores how multi-criteria analysis (MCA) methodologies can enhance sustainable tourism management in protected areas, with Samaria National Park in Crete as a primary case study.

There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, women's studies and philosophy.

In production systems there are often capacity oriented performance objectives, like a desired total throughput, a desired average throughput time and average work- in-process.

The book covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems theory from across the world and vividly presents the reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier research.

This book presents a new search paradigm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).