Operations Research category: 1119 books
Preference Disaggregation in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis
Essays in Honor of Yannis Siskos
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book presents the main principles of preference disaggregation analysis and covers theoretical advances in preference modelling, group decision making, classification methods, robustness analysis, process mining, and decision support systems. In addition, it highlights several applications of...
by Jack P.C. Kleijnen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This is a new edition of Kleijnen’s advanced expository book on statistical methods for the Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments (DASE). Altogether, this new edition has approximately 50% new material not in the original book. More specifically, the author has made significant changes...
Green Transportation Logistics
The Quest for Win-Win Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This book examines the state of the art in green transportation logistics from the perspective of balancing environmental performance in the transportation supply chain while also satisfying traditional economic performance criteria. Part of the book is drawn from the recently completed European Union...
Trends in E-Business, E-Services, and E-Commerce
Impact of Technology on Goods, Services, and Business Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The emergence of internet technologies have provided organizations and customers with access to vast amounts of data, information, and services which have revolutionized the process of exchanging products and services online. Trends in E-Business, E-Services, and E-Commerce: Impact of Technology on Goods,...
by Zeshui Xu
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book offers a systematic introduction to the clustering algorithms for intuitionistic fuzzy values, the latest research results in intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation techniques, the extended results in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environments, and their applications in multi-attribute...
Information Technology and Industrial Competitiveness
How IT Shapes Competition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Information Technology (IT) - the field that links computer and communications equipment and software - is transforming the way modern business is done. Examples of factors leading these changes are: rapidly decreasing costs of computer hardware, government de-regulation, accelerating global competitiveness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations. The aim is to increase readers’ understanding of complexity and of socio-economic interactions through the application of systems thinking perspectives. Among the various areas and topics addressed are...
Supply Chain Visibility
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Transparency and accurate management information are essential if you want to ensure that the supply chain is working for your business. Supply Chain Visibility is a critical primer for readers with backgrounds in supply chain management, system integration, strategy consulting, and enterprise software....
Exploring Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Current State and New Trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book presents innovative and high-quality research regarding advanced decision support systems (DSSs). It describes the foundations, methods, methodologies, models, tools, and techniques for designing, developing, implementing and evaluating advanced DSSs in different fields, including finance,...
Group Model Building
Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated causal mechanism for the effects on participants. There have been multiple previous attempts at explaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Within the past ten years, tremendous innovations have been brought forth in information technology and knowledge management. Some of the key technical innovations have included the introduction of social media, artificial intelligence, as well as improved network connectivity and capacity. Effective...
Recent Advances in Computational Optimization
Results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This volume is a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the Workshop on Computational Optimization 2014, held at Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014.
The book presents recent advances in computational optimization. The volume includes important real problems like parameter...
by R. Venkata Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Decision Making in Manufacturing Environment Using Graph Theory and Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making Methods presents the concepts and details of applications of MADM methods. A range of methods are covered including Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Technique for Order Preference by Similarity...
by Yun-Bin Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Seeking sparse solutions of underdetermined linear systems is required in many areas of engineering and science such as signal and image processing. The efficient sparse representation becomes central in various big or high-dimensional data processing, yielding fruitful theoretical and realistic results...