Operations Research category: 1119 books
Acting under Uncertainty
Multidisciplinary Conceptions
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery. In ordinary speech, however, it has mostly negative connotations. There is "fear of the unknown" and "ignorance is bliss;" there are maxims to the effect that "what you don't know doesn't hurt you"...
Real Estate Investing
Market Analysis, Valuation Techniques, and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
This book describes in full the major approaches used to evaluate investment in real estate and shows how theory informs decision-aid methods and tools to support such evaluation. The inclusion of numerous examples makes it also a practical guide to assessing the suitability of an investment property.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments...
Evaluation in Organizations
A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From new product launches to large-scale training initiatives, organizations need the tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes, and systems. In Evaluation in Organizations, learning theory experts Darlene Russ-Eft and Hallie Preskill integrate the most current research with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society. The title, Towards a post-Bertalanffy Systemics, aims to underline the need for Systemics and Systems Science to generalize theoretically concepts related to complexity (the great enemy of Bertalanffy...
Better Decision Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks
Training with Human-Facilitated Interactive Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Computer simulation-based education and training is a multi-billion dollar industry. With the increased complexity of organizational decision making, projected demand for computer simulation-based decisional aids is on the rise. The objective of this book is to enhance systematically our understanding...
Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Auckland, New Zealand, 7th - 12th January 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world.
Environmental impacts of human economic activity necessitate the consideration of conflicting goals in decision making processes to develop...
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
Focused on Computing and Engineering Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This is the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM) held from July 25 to 27, 2014 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and organized by International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ISMSEM),...
Portfolio Decision Analysis
Improved Methods for Resource Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial...
Which variables of governance can affect the risk of default of family businesses? A cross-country comparison between United Kingdom and Italy
The value of variables of governance and the default index
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This study examines the association between some governance variables and the risk of default of family and non-family firms. The paper also discusses the nature of family control and the differences to non-family control and their link to firm’s performance. The most relevant indicators utilised...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In order to improve competitiveness and performance, corporations must embrace advancements in digitalization. Successful implementation of knowledge management is a huge factor in corporate success. Analyzing the Impacts of Industry 4.0 in Modern Business Environments is a critical scholarly publication...
by Marc Goetschalckx
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The focus of Supply Chain Engineering is the engineering design and planning of supply chain systems. There exists a very large variety of supply chain system types, all with different goals, constraints, and decisions, but a systematic approach for the design and planning of any supply chain can...
by Julia Drechsel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs among the partners. The core is a well known method from cooperative game theory that describes efficient...