In recent years researchers have spent much effort in developing efficient heuristic algorithms for solving the class of NP-complete problems which are widely believed to be inherently intractable from the computational point of view.
Project planning, scheduling, and control are regularly used in business and the service sector of an economy to accomplish outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints.
Die hervorragende Aufnahme, die dieses inzwischen als Standardwerk etablierte Buch insbesondere in der Praxis gefunden hat zeigt, daß es dem Autor gelungen ist, einen umfassenden Überblick über die neuesten Entwicklungen im Produktionssektor zu geben.
Increased understanding in international business grows both from an awareness of cultural differences as well as from an appreciation of underlying shared values across cultures.
Searching is an important process in most AI systems, especially in those AI production systems consisting of a global database, a set of production rules, and a control system.
A knowledge of linear systems provides a firm foundation for the study of optimal control theory and many areas of system theory and signal processing.
Ethical issues are emerging as the most important managerial challenge in all spheres of organizational life, from the wider issues of strategy-making, finance, technology, marketing, information systems to the subtle concerns of gender, demography or cultural diversity.
I have been pleased with the favourable reception of the first edition of this book and I am grateful to have the opportunity to prepare this second edition.
During the development of modern probability theory in the 17th cen- tury it was commonly held that the attractiveness of a gamble offering the payoffs :1:17 *** ,:l: with probabilities Pl, .
A volume of this nature containing a collection of papers has been brought out to honour a gentleman - a friend and a colleague - whose work has, to a large extent, advanced and popularized the use of stochastic point processes.
The Background to the Institute The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 'People and Computers - Applying an Anthropocentric Approach to Integrated Production Systems and Organisations' came about after the distribution of a NATO fact sheet to BruneI University, which described the funding of ASls.
In the last 25 years, the fuzzy set theory has been applied in many disciplines such as operations research, management science, control theory, artificial intelligence/expert system, etc.
It was at the fifth SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and philosophy in autumn 1997 that the organizational work of the seventh conference in 1999 was entrusted to the editors of this volume.
Der Fehlzeitenreport 2000 stellt auf der Grundlage umfassender Datenbestände der AOK ausführlich und verständlich die Ausfallzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft dar.
Der Fehlzeitenreport 1999 stellt auf der Grundlage umfassender Datenbestände der AOK ausführlich und verständlich die Ausfallzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft dar.
This volume is the product of the "e;Sixth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy"e; on the theme of 'Cultural Factors in Economic Growth' held at Marienrode Monastry, Hildesheim, in April 1998.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, SEC 2014, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in June 2014.