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The goal in putting together this unique compilation was to present the current status of the solutions to some of the most essential open problems in pure and applied mathematics.

Customer-Oriented Optimization in Public Transportation develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view.

This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques.

Designing and deploying solutions using the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.

Looking back in history, we conceive the twentieth century as the century of wars.

Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einführung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primär für Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht.

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications.

This book provides a rigorous introduction to the theory, computation, and applications of variational inequalities (VIs), with a focus on applications in management science and finance.

Today's Most Effective Guide for Applying Project Management to Implement Organizational Strategies -- Now Updated and Expanded!

John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "e;I see us free, there- fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde- meanour.

This book shows how the Bayesian Approach (BA) improves well- known heuristics by randomizing and optimizing their parameters.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design.

This book presents a collection of the most current research into systemic creativity and TRIZ, engendering discussion and the exchange of new discoveries in the field.

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success 50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including: Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life Cycle and OrganizationsLearning the Project Management ProcessesIntegrating Project ManagementManaging the Project ScopeManaging the Project ScheduleManaging Project CostsManaging Project QualityManaging Project Human ResourcesManaging Project CommunicationsManaging Project RisksManaging Project ProcurementThe PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

At the 15th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, held in July 2022, experts in economics and the management sciences identified a concerning trend: static decision-making models, while less effective than dynamic ones, are becoming increasingly prevalent.

While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement.

This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings of Operations Research/Management Science applied to Internet of Things.

Probability (including stochastic processes) is now being applied to virtually every academic discipline, especially to the sciences.

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory.

Most researchers in organization and management studies stick to two or three traditional research methods like surveys and interviews.

Linear programming represents one of the major applications of mathematics to business, industry, and economics.

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas.

This book presents classical Markov Decision Processes (MDP) for real-life applications and optimization.

Most manufacturing systems are large, complex, and operate in an environment of uncertainty.

Non-Additive Measure and Integral is the first systematic approach to the subject.

This book presents a collection of the most current research into systemic creativity and TRIZ, engendering discussion and the exchange of new discoveries in the field.

This book delves into contemporary business analytics techniques across sectors for critical decision-making.

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books.

These notes grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Univer- sity of Budapest during 1985-1986.

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.

This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research OR2015,"e; which was held at the University of Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015.

Over the last two decades, the field of public administration has witnessed theoretical and practical changes that have innovated the relationships between public administration and performance management.

This edited book addresses the challenges in managing the operations and supply chain of organizations in the era of internet of things and Industry 4.

Digital Terrain Analysis, Third Edition synthesizes knowledge on methods and applications of digital terrain analysis and geomorphometry in the context of multi-scale problems in soil science, geology, and polar research.

Multicriterion Decision in Management: Principles and Practice is the first multicriterion analysis book devoted exclusively to discrete multicriterion decision making.

This book can help overcome the widely observed math-phobia and math-aversion among undergraduate students in these subjects.

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation.

This book on constrained optimization is novel in that it fuses these themes: use examples to introduce general ideas; engage the student in spreadsheet computation; survey the uses of constrained optimization;.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2018), which was held at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium on September 12 - 14, 2018, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) and the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL).

Planen von Abläufen ist zentraler Bestandteil unternehmerischen Handelns in Produktion, Logistik, Marketing und Personal oder von Anwendungen im Maschinenbau oder der Informatik.

In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation.

This book contains the topics of artificial intelligence and deep learning that do have much application in real-life problems.

Navigating the academic ecosystem involves a variety of challenges that extend beyond the application of research methods.

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices.

Pretty Kitchens' Bag Filling Machine investigates how to calculate the cost of quality.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.