Operational research

This book emphasizes three key messages; value, alignment and sustainability.

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2024), held in Delft, the Netherlands, from 13 to 14 June 2024.

This book demonstrates what kind of problems, originating in a management accounting setting, may be solved with game theoretic models.

Uncertainties in Numerical Weather Prediction is a comprehensive work on the most current understandings of uncertainties and predictability in numerical simulations of the atmosphere.

'Optimization Day' (OD) has been a series of annual mini-conferences in Aus- tralia since 1994.

Addressing the entire care chain, this book presents the outcomes of advanced research on healthcare operations management based on real-world data and practices in China.

This book presents a consistent methodology for making decisions under uncertain conditions, as is almost always the case.

In einer zunehmend komplexen und dynamischen Geschäftswelt stehen Unternehmen und Service-Manager vor der Herausforderung, externe Faktoren wie politische Veränderungen, technologische Entwicklungen und gesellschaftliche Trends genau zu bewerten und darauf strategisch zu reagieren.

This book provides a systematic presentation of the major results in the field of the theory of k-out-of-n systems obtained in recent years and their applications for the reliability assessment of high-altitude unmanned platforms.

There was much development of both education and industry in post-World War II Britain.

Achieving operational excellence is a challenge for the pharmaceutical industry, with many companies setting successful examples time and again.

The book presents the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2021), which took place online on October 6, 2021.

One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes.

Nature-inspired computation and swarm intelligence have become popular and effective tools for solving problems in optimization, computational intelligence, soft computing and data science.

In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems.

This volume explores ways in which an organization's existing competences can be enhanced as sources of competitive advantage - either enduring or intendedly transitional.

Deep Learning and Parallel Computing Environment for Bioengineering Systems delivers a significant forum for the technical advancement of deep learning in parallel computing environment across bio-engineering diversified domains and its applications.

Neural Approximations for Optimal Control and Decision provides a comprehensive methodology for the approximate solution of functional optimization problems using neural networks and other nonlinear approximators where the use of traditional optimal control tools is prohibited by complicating factors like non-Gaussian noise, strong nonlinearities, large dimension of state and control vectors, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2023) held in Harbin, China, during December 16-17, 2023.

Based on unique access interviews with leading chairmen and senior executives, All Above Board examines the key functions of the ideal 21st century board, how and why badly led boards fail, and what changes can be made to improve board behavior and efficiency for best practice.

From 1972 to 1974, I was working on a PhD thesis entitled Multiple Server Queues with Service Time Depending on Waiting Time.

This book helps readers understand the main issues, challenges, strategies, and solution methods in Aggregate Planning (AP), an important part of Supply Chain Management.

In its thousands of years of history, mathematics has made an extraordinary ca- reer.

The book presents the proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2019), which took place in Krynica Zdroj, Poland, on October 8-10, 2019.

Discover recent powerful advances in the theory, methods, and applications of decision and risk analysis Focusing on modern advances and innovations in the field of decision analysis (DA), Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis presents theories and methods for making, improving, and learning from significant practical decisions.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2021) held in Harbin, China, during December 18-20, 2021.

Energy and Environment is a volume on energy and environmental modeling that describes a broad variety of modeling methodologies, embodied in models of varying scopes and philosophies, ranging from top-down integrated assessment models to bottom-up partial equilibrium models, to hybrid models.

The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership- reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers.

Christian Köster präsentiert zur Problematik der Bestellmenge für nicht lagerfähige Güter bei unsicherer Nachfrage verschiedene Laborexperimente in Newsvendor-Entscheidungssituationen bei asymmetrischen Nachfrageverteilungen.

A service economy era is coming!

Production scheduling dictates highly constrained mathematical models with complex and often contradicting objectives.

The subject of (static) optimization, also called mathematical programming, is one of the most important and widespread branches of modern mathematics, serving as a cornerstone of such scientific subjects as economic analysis, operations research, management sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, statistics, computer science, biology, and social sciences.

This book examines optimization problems that in practice involve random model parameters.

Over the years I have worked with or consulted for many managers throughout the world at all levels of industry and government.

This book is about elicitation: the facilitation of the quantitative expression of subjective judgement about matters of fact, interacting with subject experts, or about matters of value, interacting with decision makers or stakeholders.

During the Spring of 1979 one of us (Zionts) was invited to visit Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent developments in production planning.

These Proceedings report the scientific results of an International Workshop on Methodology and Software for Interactive Decision Support organized jointly by the System and Decision Sciences Program of the International Institute for Applied Sys- tems Analysis (nASA, located in Laxenburg, Austria) and The National Committee for Applied Systems Analysis and Management in Bulgaria.

This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making.

The third edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply chain and operations management (SCOM), combining value creation networks and interacting processes.

Many potential questions regarding the risks associated with the development and use of wide-ranging technologies enabled through engineered nanomaterials.

A few years ago nobody would have anticipated that in connection with degeneracy in Linear Programming quite a new field.

This volume collects peer-reviewed short papers presented at the Optimization and Decision Science conference (ODS 2022) held in Florence (Italy) from August 30th to September 2nd, 2022,  organized by the Global Optimization Laboratory within the University of Florence and AIRO (the Italian Association for Operations Research).

The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis.