1 Die Konferenzreihe des Europarats über Fragen des Parlamentarismus und der Wissen schaften verfolgt den Zweck, Parlamentarier, Wissenschaftler, Vertreter der Industrie, Ge werkschaftler und wissenschaftliche Führungskräfte aus ganz Europa, den wichtigsten in ternationalen Organisationen und, soweit irgend möglich, aus anderen Ländern, die vor den gleichen Problemen stehen, im Hinblick auf periodische Diskussionen bestimmter Themen zusammenzuführen.
For many stochastic service systems, service capacities large enough to serve some given customer demand is achieved simply by providing multiple servers of low capacity; for example, toll plazas have many toll collectors, banks have many t- lers, bus lines have many buses, etc.
These notes originate from a couple of lectures which were given in the Econometric Workshop of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain.
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.
