Operational research

This book reports on the development and validation of a generic defeasible logic programming framework for carrying out argumentative reasoning in Semantic Web applications (GF@SWA).

Data and its processed state 'information' have become an indispensable resource for virtually all aspects of business, education, etc.

The proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making.

The objective of this book, the second volume of this monograph series, is to respond to the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business so that the new theories will be more relevant to real life than the prevalent ones.

This book suggests that business research, in the collection, analysis, and communication of evidence, will benefit from explicit acceptance of research as argumentation.

This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis.

Management Education in Canada: Historical Reflections offers a fresh and critical look at the evolution of management education in Canada.

"Ich komme gar nicht mehr zum Arbeiten" ist eine Aussage, die uns häufig begegnet.

This fourth edition of the book provides readers with a detailed explanation of PLM, enabling them to gain a full understanding and the know-how to implement PLM within their own business environment.

Brainstorming is probably the best known of all the techniques available for creative problem solving.

This book presents the methodology and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and corporate failure prediction.

With businesses facing rapid change in technologies and digital business models, decision makers need to keep apace with the latest thought leadership in order to deliver value to stakeholders.

Computational Methods for Time-Series Analyses in Earth Sciences bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, offering a deep dive into the utilization of R programming for managing, analyzing, and forecasting time-series data within the realm of Earth sciences.

This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent interactions between security managers and potential adversaries.

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order.

This volume contains the proceedings of the summer school "e;Modern Methods of Optimization"e;, held at the Schlof3 Thurnau of the University of Bayreuth, October 1-6, 1990.

International shipping is currently at a crossroads.

This monograph focuses on the application of the solution strategy known as branch-and-bound to problems of combinatorial data analysis.

An in-depth Oracle Press guide to Oracle Exalytics In-Memory MachineWritten by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, this e-book offers comprehensive coverage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform.

The book covers the domain of multi-criteria decision making, a topic which has gained significant attention of researchers and practitioners spanning a variety of disciplines for enhancing their decision making in real life situation.

Computational Retinal Image Analysis: Tools, Applications and Perspectives gives an overview of contemporary retinal image analysis (RIA) in the context of healthcare informatics and artificial intelligence.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to operations research theory and applications in health care systems.

Explore distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts and develop real-time decentralized applications with Ethereum and SolidityKey FeaturesGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchainBuild powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contractsGain advanced insights into cryptography and cryptocurrenciesBook DescriptionBlockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media.

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process.

This book constructs a model of the knowledge value chain in the university and analyzes the university knowledge value-added mechanism in the process of Industry-University Collaborative Innovation.

This book offers a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources and optimization strategies in hybrid power systems (HPSs).

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

This book discusses significant research findings in the field of mathematical modelling, with particular emphasis on important applied-sciences, health, and social issues.

Applying Occupational Psychology in the Fire Service: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making provides readers with an overview of the latest research informing the policies, procedures and practices of those working on the ground in the UK Fire Service.

This book addresses the challenges companies face when different customer value propositions require them to pursue a differentiated supply chain strategy.

When predicting the future of air traffic development, it is imperative for researchers and planners tohave the most accurate information about airport capacity constraints.

This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of 'unethics' in contemporary affairs in economics, business, and society.

Neural Approximations for Optimal Control and Decision provides a comprehensive methodology for the approximate solution of functional optimization problems using neural networks and other nonlinear approximators where the use of traditional optimal control tools is prohibited by complicating factors like non-Gaussian noise, strong nonlinearities, large dimension of state and control vectors, etc.

th This book is devoted to the 19 Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling, held in Chania, Crete, Greece,November28-30, 1996.

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

The second edition of Leadership offers a unique, highly-applied academic treatise on leadership, uniquely blending a chronological analysis of the last 100 years of leadership theory with exclusive CEO interviews.

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

The energy sector has more trading volume than any other commodity.

People throughout the world are now commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War.

This book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies.

This fascinating new core textbook, authored by a highly respected academic with over a decade of industry experience, takes a global and strategic approach to the important topic of operations management (OM).

Practical Goal Programming is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models,  to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields.