Operations Research category: 1119 books
Value Engineering
Concepts, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Value engineering is a systematic and organized procedural decision-making process, which is designed to ensure the maximum value for the client or the end consumer. At a time when success in business is critically dependent on the value attached to a product, this concept provides any enterprise...
Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Impact evaluation is an empirical approach to estimating the causal effects of interventions, in terms of both magnitude and statistical significance. Expanded use of impact evaluation techniques is critical to rigorously derive knowledge from development operations and for development investments...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book discusses the main techniques and newest trends to manage and optimize the production and service systems. The book begins by examining the three main levels of decision systems in production: the long term (strategic), the middle term (tactical) and short term (operational). It also considers...
Simulation in Engineering and Technology
A Practical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Computer simulation modeling is a discipline gaining popularity in both the government and industry. It can assist in the design, creation and evaluation of complex systems. Designers, program managers, analysts and engineers use computer simulation modeling to understand and evaluate ‘what if’...
by Hai Wang, Zeshui Xu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications. The book pursues three major objectives: (1) to introduce some techniques to model several types of natural linguistic...
Innovations in Wave Processes Modelling and Decision Making
Grid-Characteristic Method and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.g. seismic prospecting, earthquake stability, global seismic patterns on Earth and Mars, medicine, traumatology, ultrasound investigation of the human body, ultrasound and laser operations,...
New Models for Sustainable Logistics
Internalization of External Costs in Inventory Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This book introduces new inventory models to support decision-making when cost of externalities are jointly considered along with costs of logistics. Internalization of cost of externalities gives rise to new logistics costs estimates and functions which managers, researchers, lecturers and students...
Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Aiding
Cases on Models and Methods with Computer Implementations
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2018
This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases. Each case study introduces a problem or situation together with a method, and a description and explanation of a computer application. In this sense each chapter is based on four pillars:...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments. The chapters of this handbook are written by leading experts in supply chain risk management and resilience. For the first time, the chapters present in their synergy a multiple-faceted...
Sustainable Shipping
A Cross-Disciplinary View
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
International shipping is currently at a crossroads. The decision of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in April 2018 to adopt an Initial Strategy so as to achieve by 2050 a reduction of at least 50% in maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions vis-à-vis 2008 levels epitomizes the last among...
Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information
Value Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text...
Unpacking Open Innovation
Highlights From a Co-Evolutionary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Disintegrated or distributed innovation, collaborative innovation, collective invention, collegial innovation, free innovation, open knowledge disclosure, free knowledge disclosure: are these all the same thing? This shows us there is some confusion regarding open innovation, or at least there is...
Multicriteria and Clustering
Classification Techniques in Agrifood and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in practice....
Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management
International Conference, MS 2016, Teruel, Spain, July 4-5, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and the University of Zaragoza through the GESES Research...