Operational research

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex.

This book presents a consistent and complete framework for studying the risk management of a pension fund.

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Hybrid Predictive Control for Dynamic Transport Problems develops methods for the design of predictive control strategies for nonlinear-dynamic hybrid discrete-/continuous-variable systems.

This book treats three planning problems arising in public railway transportation planning: line planning, timetabling, and delay management, with the objective to minimize passengers' travel time.

This volume, Systems and Management Science by Extremal Methods, is the second in a series dedicated to honoring and extending the work of Abraham Charnes.

This book introduces readers to essential strategies, practices, and benchmarking for asset maintenance in operations intensive industries.

Dieses Handbuch aus unserer Reihe "Managementwissen für Studium und Praxis" bietet eine komprimierte Einführung in die allgemeine BWL.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling.

This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges.

This book proposes a wealth-additive scheme of managing and maximizing (win-win and sharing) the marginal value (eco-entropy) of artifacts by humanizing the artifacts' enterprise and their economics with nature.

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This third edition updates and adds to the successful second edition and gives the reader a thorough description of PLM, providing them with a full understanding of the theory and the practical skills to implement PLM within their own business environment.

This volume presents advanced techniques to modeling markets, with a wide spectrum of topics, including advanced individual demand models, time series analysis, state space models, spatial models, structural models, mediation, models that specify competition and diffusion models.

This is the first book focusing exclusively on fuzzy dual numbers.

Semiorder is probably one of the most frequently ordered structures in science.

With increased globalization and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses as it involves a company's worldwide interests and suppliers rather than simply a local or national orientation.

This book aims to revisit the "e;traditional"e; interaction between channel strategies and the marketing mix in a connected world.

Bei den Vorbereitungen zu einer CIM-Einführung ist über die rein technischen Aspekte hinaus eine sorgfältige Planung des organisatorischen Umfelds zwingend erforderlich: technische und organisatorische Aspekte sowie die Qualifizierung der Mitarbeiter sind zu beachten, Risiken und Chancen kritisch abzuwägen.

This book systematically explores theories related to linguistic computational models and group decision making methods under uncertainty.

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 introduces the theory and applications of uncertain optimal control, and establishes two types of models including expected value uncertain optimal control and optimistic value uncertain optimal control.

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.

This new book addresses the status of the field of System Dynamics 60+ years after its inception.

The 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering joint event.

Process Modeling Style focuses on other aspects of process modeling beyond notation that are very important to practitioners.

This work is devoted to the late Ukrainian computer scientist V.

Although several books or monographs on multiobjective optimization under uncertainty have been published, there seems to be no book which starts with an introductory chapter of linear programming and is designed to incorporate both fuzziness and randomness into multiobjective programming in a unified way.

This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past 25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in the field.

A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program.

Andy Garlick's book explores the role of quantitative techniques in modern risk management.

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 presents essential information on modern location science - in a word, all you need to know about location.

This book aims to stimulate debate in the growing and highly controversial area of measuring scholarly work.

The purpose of this study is in keeping with the shift in concern over the eco- nomic problems of growth to those of income distribution in recent years.

Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government.

In the last few decades, managerial and business studies have shown an increasing inability to explain and forecast emergent dynamics in society, economics, and the environment.

Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important environmental problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products.

To ensure the security and economy of future power system operation in the context of a high degree of renewable energy penetration, this thesis proposes a new distributed algorithm called generalized master-slave-splitting (G-MSS) theory and a new transmission-distribution coordinated energy management (TDCEM) method that is based on the G-MSS theory.

Divergence: A Source of Creative Thinking The outstanding job accomplished by Bernard, Gary, and Gilles is really praiseworthy: not only did they succeed in completing within a remark- ably short span of time the editing of the contributions to the conference that marked the 20th Anniversary of the European Institute for Ad- vanced Studies in Management; they have also managed to elicit numerous insightful comments from a host of dashing young scholars as well as from the fortunate few established authorities whose findings have long be- come leading articles in the best academic journals, who now chair those journals' editorial boards, and after whom great scientific awards have been named.

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Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book represents the results of cross-fertilization between OR/MS and CS/AI.

This work prepares current and future managers and consultants focused on health care delivery systems to improve the efficiency of processes that deliver care.

Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain.