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Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators recounts the development of the field of Operations Research (OR), the science of decision making.

Our objectives in writing Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook are threefold: (1) Provide a unified scheme for classifying the numerous project scheduling problems occurring in practice and studied in the literature; (2) Provide a unified and up-to-date treatment of the state-of-the-art procedures developed for their solution; (3) Alert the reader to various important problems that are still in need of considerable research effort.

Many decision-making tasks are too complex to be understood quantitatively, however, humans succeed by using knowledge that is imprecise rather than precise.

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and formal risk analyses.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

The goal of this book is to present basic optimization theory and modern computational algorithms in a concise manner.

This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand.

This book presents recently developed intelligent techniques with applications and theory in the area of quality management.

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

ELECTRE and Decision Support focuses on the areas of engineering and infrastructure investment.

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.

Unfortunately, leadership does not have a one-size-fits-all definition.

This edited volume presents state-of-the-art research that can leverage large-scale sensory data collected in grocery/retail stores where a single customer visit may generate nearly 10,000 data points.

Based on the 2018 International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM) conference that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, this proceedings volume is the first of two focusing on mathematical applications in digital transformation.

This book presents the details of the BONUS algorithm and its real world applications in areas like sensor placement in large scale drinking water networks, sensor placement in advanced power systems, water management in power systems, and capacity expansion of energy systems.

This book presents various multi-criteria analysis methods for sustainability-oriented analysis and decision-making for energy systems, under various different conditions and scenarios.

This book explores the latest theories, methods, and applications of consensus modeling.

This book covers research trends of data science and management involving cutting edge technologies and novel research directions from diverse fields of industries, business and government sectors.

A close look at the main developments in IT, business processes and offshore outsourcing.

This book provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry through theory, method, and research.

The Fourth International MCDM Conference follows a tradition that began with an exploratory gathering at the University of South Carolina in 1973.

30th European Symposium on Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Volume 47 contains the papers presented at the 30th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Milan, Italy, May 24-27, 2020.

Advances in Machine Learning and Image Analysis for GeoAI provides state-of-the-art machine learning and signal processing techniques for a comprehensive collection of geospatial sensors and sensing platforms.

The goal of this book is to elaborate on the main principles of the theory of the Berge equilibrium by answering the following two questions: What are the basic properties of the Berge equilibrium?

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

The unique book advances understanding of modelling complex systems using hybrid approaches that combine discrete-event, agent-based, and system dynamic simulations with research approaches and artefacts from other scientific disciplines.

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

In this thesis, Iris Heckmann develops a profound conceptual basis of supply chain risk analytics.

This volume of Annals of Information Systems will acknowledge the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) by documenting some of the current best practices in teaching and research and envisioning the next twenty years in the decision support systems field.

"e;Mathematical Optimization and Economic Analysis"e; is a self-contained introduction to various optimization techniques used in economic modeling and analysis such as geometric, linear, and convex programming and data envelopment analysis.

This book provides an in-depth presentation of algorithms for and complexity of open shop scheduling.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

Many contemporary business models are now completely based on the idea of a circular economy or sustainability, where they extensively use technology to save resources, become more efficient, and leave a smaller carbon footprint on the planet.

Sven-Michael Wundenberg discusses the development of a reference architecture for the Learning Management System's (LMS) selection-process aimed at the system's implementation in a polytechnic-knowledge-transfer organization.

This book offers a simple introduction to the theory and practice of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background.

The latest edition of International Economics improves and builds upon the popular features of previous editions.

Decisions, Games and Markets is designed to stimulate new developments in decision theory, game theory and general equilibrium theory, as well as in their applications to economics.

This book is a volume in honor of Zvi Drezner's 75th birthday.

Andreas Barmann develops novel approaches for the solution of network design problems as they arise in various contexts of applied optimization.

Bio-Inspired Strategies for Modeling and Detection in Diabetes Mellitus Treatment focuses on bio-inspired techniques such as modelling to generate control algorithms for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

This book represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelop- ment Analysis (DEA).

Projects are constantly beset by problems, often caused by seemingly small mistakes which collectively lead to larger issues.

The book provides a thorough treatment of set functions, games and capacities as well as integrals with respect to capacities and games, in a mathematical rigorous presentation and in view of application to decision making.

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.

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