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This book focuses on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, and decision-making.

In the ideal world, major decisions would be made based on complete and reliable information available to the decision maker.

In this book, one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can be researched.

The goal of this book is to publish the latest mathematical techniques, research, and developments in engineering.

This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human health consequences of using antibiotics in food animals.

Experience gained during a ten-year long involvement in modelling, program- ming and application in nonlinear optimization helped me to arrive at the conclusion that in the interest of having successful applications and efficient software production, knowing the structure of the problem to be solved is in- dispensable.

The book provides various research methods and ordering policies for inventory management in the sustainable environment in India.

This book covers advancements across business domains in knowledge and information management.

The term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice.

This book examines the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, its varied uses, as well as its limitations for solving real-world scenarios.

Lagrange and penalty function methods provide a powerful approach, both as a theoretical tool and a computational vehicle, for the study of constrained optimization problems.

I am very happy to have this opportunity to present the work of Boris Mirkin, a distinguished Russian scholar in the areas of data analysis and decision making methodologies.

Driven by the request for increased productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness, modern civilization increasingly has created high-performance discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs).

This book is a collection of selected high-quality research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Evidence-Based Management (ICEBM) 2023, held at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, during February 24-25, 2023.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.

This book presents for the first time a methodology that combines the power of a modelling formalism such as colored petri nets with the flexibility of a discrete event program such as SIMIO.

The book explores the field of model predictive control (MPC).

This handbook includes three parts, corresponding to the following three domains of OR/MS research related to sustainability: (i) Systems Design, Innovation, and Technology, (ii) Manufacturing, Logistics, and Transportation, and (iii) Sustainable Natural Resource Management.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of essential operations management principles with this easy to read introduction to the subject "e;This textbook provides valuable insight into the essentials of directing, designing, delivering and developing operations.

All the data was out there to warn us of this impending attack, why didn't we see it?

DEA is computational at its core and this book will be one of several books that we will look to publish on the computational aspects of DEA.

This textbook teaches the basic concepts and methods of project management but also explains how to convert them to useful results in practice.

Great advances have been made in recent years in the field of computational probability.

Fast ein Krimi … Warum sind etablierte Firmen, die es geschafft haben, eine Innovationsfähigkeit aufzubauen, plötzlich nicht mehr innovativ?

This book is a reaction to the reductionist and exploitative ideas dominating the mainstream contemporary management discourse and practice, and an attempt to broaden the horizons of possibility for both managers and organization scholars.

This book discusses reliability applications for power systems, renewable energy and smart grids and highlights trends in reliable communication, fault-tolerant systems, VLSI system design and embedded systems.

This book offers a novel multi-portfolio approach and stochastic programming formulations for modeling and solving contemporary supply chain risk management problems.

We are living in the post-information age, the era of so-called 'Big Data'.

Econometrics as an applied discipline attempts to use information in a most efficient manner, yet the information theory and entropy approach developed by Shannon and others has not played much of a role in applied econometrics.

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 integrates multiple criteria concepts and methods for problems within the Risk, Reliability and Maintenance (RRM) context.

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This book analyses decision-making in dynamic economic environments.

The papers appearing in this Volume were selected from a collec- tion of papers presented at the Internationa~ Symposium on Extrema~ Methods and Systems Ana~ysis on the Occasion of Professor A.

More than forty years have passed since the early attempts to model projects.

This book explores the application of complex variables to econometric modeling.

The book focuses on the next fields of computer science: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, decision theory, and computer-aided production management systems.

In 2009 three consultants, green to the consulting industry were tasked with a new challenge, the activation and licensing of a new, 100 bed hospital, in only 90 days.

Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts shows researchers, students and professionals the important connection between transportation planning, energy use and emissions.

This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.

In todays industries, New Product Development (NPD) is often the focal point of competition.

Flexible manufacturing systems are complex production systems with considerable high investment costs.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2016, held in Bellingham, WA, USA, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2024, which took place in Porto, Portugal, during June 2-5, 2024.

Targeting Angiogenesis, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Chronic Diseases presents recent advances in the vivid molecular pathways targeting angiogenesis, inflammation and oxidative stress that contribute very widely to the genesis of chronic diseases.

PREFACE TO THE COLLECTION PREAMBLE The editors are pleased to present a selection of Henri Theil's contributions to economics and econometrics in three volumes.