Business and Management

In many engineering design and optimization problems, the presence of uncertainty in the data is a critical issue.

Composite decisions consist of subdecisions and correspond to a composite system.

Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a new paradigm for product manufacturing, enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way.

vi The process is important!

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

MATLAB is a powerful programme, which naturally lends itself to the rapid implementation of most numerical algorithms.

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance.

At the core of this book is the interplay between technological and business innovation and social practice.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

It is said that six sigma methods are vital to survive, let alone thrive, in today's competitive markets, but what are these methods and how or when do we use them?

This book objectively represents the achievements, status quo, and trends of China Internet development in 2021, systematically summarizes the main experience of China Internet development, and deeply analyzes the strategic planning, policies and measures, and development achievements, level, and trends in China in terms of eight aspects, i.

The book aims to present a multi-dimensional view on the blockchain-driven supply chain management and its linkage with open innovation, digital technologies, supply chain sustainability, mapping, visibility, and resilience.

This volume approaches marcomm (marketing communication) from the phenomenology of markets in the context of the Global South and its postcolonial experiences.

This book tells the African FinTech stories and provides a comprehensive overview of the current situations within the five economic zones in Africa - the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), North Africa and the GCC countries.

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are manifesting in increasingly sophisticated technologies and systems contributing to the digital transformation of organizations.

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, influencer marketing has emerged as a game-changer, captivating audiences and driving brand engagement like never before.

This book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that support the future of these industries and help to make them more resilient.

This book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades.

It started and ended with a financial catastrophe.

This is the first book that provides a comprehensive inter-regional comparison of Asian and European multinationals from large (China and Russia) and medium-sized (Taiwan) emerging markets.

This book introduces the mathematical foundations of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for decision-making problems with ambiguous uncertainties and applies them to tackle the critical challenge of energy storage sizing in renewable-integrated power systems, providing readers with an efficient and reliable approach to analyze and design real-world energy systems with uncertainties.

Innovation is a major driver of social, economic and environmental change and is researched extensively by academics from disciplines as diverse as, business, engineering, economics, sociology and psychology.

This book constitutes revised papers from the International Workshops held at the 22nd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2024, in Krakow, Poland, during September 2024.

This book investigates value co-creation processes within the context of circular entrepreneurship.

Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on MMESE are an academic showcase of the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, introducing readers to the top research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

The world's best negotiators have moved beyond the conventional wisdom by utilising cutting-edge studies and real-world results.

Is Apple conscious?

';The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.

The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold.

This book delves into the critical role of eco-labels as signals in a marketplace increasingly driven by consumer demand for sustainable products.

The four-volume set LNAI 15819–15822 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2025, held as part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 22-17, 2025.

This book explores recent developments and exciting challenges in operations research and mathematical optimization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on HCI in Games, held as part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place in Washington DC, USA, during June 29 - July 4, 2024.

The two-volume set LNBIP 547 + LNBIP 548 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, in May 2025.

The three-volume set LNBIP 549 - 551 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, WHICEB 2025, which was held in Guangzhou, China, during June 6-8, 2025.

When people get together, there is often one stand-out individual who others turn to for answers.

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further.

After a fairly low threshold, income and material wealth have no measurable effect on happiness.

What's wrong with buying regular coffee?

This book fills a serious gap by providing a conceptual framework for understanding the digital world.

This book, the third volume of Information Systems Research in Vietnam, presents a special theme that focuses on two emerging and critical topics of the twenty-first century: "e;Digital Transformation"e; and "e;Sustainable Development"e;.

Designed as a self-contained text, this book covers a wide spectrum of topics on portfolio theory.