Operational research

Organizations are complex entities that must adapt the practices of their employees and management to meet the demands of a dynamic environment.

This book covers various data scientific approaches to analyze the issue of grid integration of renewable energy for which the grid flexibility is the key to cope with its intermittency.

Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorien gelten als erfolgversprechende Ansätze zur Erklärung sozialen Handelns.

Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full understanding of Chinese business success.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2022) held in Harbin, China, during December 17-18, 2022.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Providing the necessary background information and hands-on tools to build compelling business cases, this book will increase the reader's capability to champion new business development ideas, take them to senior management, and facilitate the decision process by understanding the key theories and practices of finance and corporate investments.

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling.

This book presents 27 methods of the Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM), which are not discussed in the existing books, nor studied in details, using more applications.

This book is about taking a theory, pricing, and translating it into an operational practice that can be used by a company on an everyday basis easily with maximum results.

This volume offers state-of-the-art research in service science and its related research, education and practice areas.

This textbook provides an introduction to the growing interdisciplinary field of computational science.

This volume presents a selection of the presentations from the first annual conference on Analytical Methods in Software Engineering Economics held at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia.

The Gold Cartel is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of the world market for gold, how it works, and what influences gold price.

Beginning in the mid-2010s, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has seen remarkable changes in information technology that have blurred the boundaries between the physical, digital and biological worlds.

In classical analysis, there is a vast difference between the class of problems that may be handled by means of the methods of calculus and the class of problems requiring combinatorial techniques.

This book comprehensively assesses the growing importance of project data for project scheduling, risk analysis and control.

This book aims at an innovative approach within the framework of convex analysis and optimization, based on an in-depth study of the behavior and properties of the supremum of families of convex functions.

Das Buch beschreibt anhand zweier prototypischer Expertensysteme verallgemeinerungsfähige Methodiken für betriebswirtschaftliche Schwachstellendiagnosen.

Industry consolidation, mergers, changes to business models, the emergence of new threats all require managers to understand highly complex situations, assess risk and opportunity and make informed decisions.

Robert Dochow mathematically derives a simplified classification structure of selected types of the portfolio selection problem.

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the joint international conference ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015, offering recent research on industrial engineering, management and operations from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book offers an essential review of central theories, current research and applications in the field of numerical representations of ordered structures.

First published in 1993.

The professional services market is under continuous pressure to change.

In this book quantitative approaches are proposed for production planning problems in automated manufacturing.

Digital Enterprise Challenges comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh International PROLAMAT conference, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Budapest, Hungary in November 2001.

This book includes both theoretical results and application cases of analytical modeling based research related to the fashion and textile business.

Industry 5.

Whether different types of costs are to be reduced, benefits to be maximized or scarce resources to be managed, scheduling theory provides intelligent methods for practitioners and scientists.

This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management.

The informal manufacturing sector, characterized by activities such as handicrafts, cottage industries, micro-enterprises, and small-scale industries, contributes significantly to local economies.

This book aims to contribute to the discussion about the implications of fuzzy logic, neural networks, digital era, and other intelligent techniques on organizations.

Interactive Operations Research with Maple: Methods and Models has two ob- jectives: to provide an accelerated introduction to the computer algebra system Maple and, more importantly, to demonstrate Maple's usefulness in modeling and solving a wide range of operations research (OR) problems.

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 provides researchers, post-graduate students, and practitioners with a systematic framework for coping with uncertainty when making facility location decisions.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of management and engineering.

Optimization in Science and Engineering is dedicated in honor of the 60th birthday of Distinguished Professor Panos M.

Nature-Inspired Computing Paradigms in Systems: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Cost (RAMS+C) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) covers several areas that include bioinspired techniques and optimization approaches for system dependability.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how the specific field addressed has evolved.

This guide is designed for systems researchers - emerging and seasoned - searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide.

Mit diesem Buch liegen kompakte Beschreibungen von Prognoseverfahren vor, die vor allem in betriebswirtschaftlichen DV-Systemen eingesetzt werden.

This research-oriented book presents key contributions on architecting the digital transformation.

Risk management is a decision-making process which considers various factors with risk assessments relating to a potential hazard, in order to develop regulatory response options.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Durable strategies that have prolonged effects are prevalent in real-world situations.