Operations Research category: 1119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The tactical organization of resources is a vital component to any industry in modern society. Effectively managing the flow of materials through various networks ensures that the requirements of customers are met. Sustainable Logistics and Strategic Transportation Planning is a pivotal reference source...
Prescription for Social Dilemmas
Psychology for Urban, Transportation, and Environmental Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue...
by Marina Resta
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The book focuses on a set of cutting-edge research techniques, highlighting the potential of soft computing tools in the analysis of economic and financial phenomena and in providing support for the decision-making process. In the first part the textbook presents a comprehensive and self-contained...
Uncertainty Management in Simulation-Optimization of Complex Systems
Algorithms and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This book aims at illustrating strategies to account for uncertainty in complex systems described by computer simulations. When optimizing the performances of these systems, accounting or neglecting uncertainty may lead to completely different results; therefore, uncertainty management is a major...
Decision Making and Knowledge Decision Support Systems
VIII International Conference of RACEF, Barcelona, Spain, November 2013 and International Conference MS 2013, Chania Crete, Greece, November 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems. It explores expert systems and neural networks, knowledge engineering and management, fuzzy sets and systems and computational methods for optimization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives. Increasingly...
by Vincent Blackburn, Shae Brennan, John Ruggiero
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
This book provides a complete analysis of educational production and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public sector characterized by the influence of exogenous socio-economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Features mathematical modeling techniques and real-world processes with applications in diverse fields
Mathematical Modeling with Multidisciplinary Applications details the interdisciplinary nature of mathematical modeling and numerical algorithms. The book combines a variety of applications...
Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making
Essays in Honor of Richard F. Hartl
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This volume collects research papers addressing topical issues in economics and management with a particular focus on dynamic models which allow to analyze and foster the decision making of firms in dynamic complex environments. The scope of the contributions ranges from daily operational challenges...
Dynamic Models of Advertising Competition
Open- and Closed-Loop Extensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
For years, I have been impressed by how dynamic markets are. Marketing strategies are rarely successful without adjustments over time, and marketing managers need constantly to monitor, and anticipate when possible, important changes in the marketing environment, so that they can adapt their marketing...
Group Decision and Negotiation. A Socio-Technical Perspective
17th International Conference, GDN 2017, Stuttgart, Germany, August 14-18, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.
The field of Group Decision and Negotiation focuses on decision processes with at least two participants and a common goal but...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Metaheuristics exhibit desirable properties like simplicity, easy parallelizability, and ready applicability to different types of optimization problems. After a comprehensive introduction to the field, the contributed chapters in this book include explanations of the main metaheuristics techniques,...
Computational Aspects and Applications in Large-Scale Networks
NET 2017, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, June 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Contributions in this volume focus on computationally efficient algorithms and rigorous mathematical theories for analyzing large-scale networks. Researchers and students in mathematics, economics, statistics, computer science and engineering will find this collection a valuable resource filled with...
Topical Directions of Informatics
In Memory of V. M. Glushkov
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This work is devoted to the late Ukrainian computer scientist V. M. Glushkov on the 90th anniversary of his birthday. Dr. Glushkov is known for his contribution to the world computer science and technology and this volume analyzes the ideas and paths of development of informatics formulated by him...