Operations Research category: 1119 books
The Theory of Entrepreneurship
Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial contextual milieu.
by Renata Mansini, M. Grazia Speranza, Włodzimierz Ogryczak
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This book presents solutions to the general problem of single period portfolio optimization. It introduces different linear models, arising from different performance measures, and the mixed integer linear models resulting from the introduction of real features. Other linear models, such as models...
Statistical Decision Problems
Selected Concepts and Portfolio Safeguard Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Statistical Decision Problems presents a quick and concise introduction into the theory of risk, deviation and error measures that play a key role in statistical decision problems. It introduces state-of-the-art practical decision making through twenty-one case studies from real-life applications....
Computational Management Science
State of the Art 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This volume contains contributions from the 11th International Conference on Management Science (CMS 2014), held at Lisbon, Portugal, on May 29-31, 2014. Its contents reflect the wide scope of Management Science, covering different theoretical aspects for a quite diverse set of applications. Computational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This book presents an overview of the risks involved in modern electricity production, delivery and trading, including technical risk in production, transportation and delivery, operational risk for the system operators, market risks for traders, and political and other long term risks in strategic...
by Jared L. Cohon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This text takes a broad view of multiobjective programming, emphasizing the methods most useful for continuous problems. It reviews multiobjective programming methods in the context of public decision-making problems, developing each problem within a context that addresses practical aspects of planning...
Making Negotiations Predictable
What Science Tells Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Everybody in business is involved in negotiating internally and externally. The impact of this can have consequences for revenue and profitability, so it is more important than ever to be an effective negotiator for business success. In Making Negotiations Predictable, two global experts give crucial insights into getting it right.
by Sheila Shaffie, Shahbaz Shahbazi
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skills
With the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don’t need to be a Black Belt to build quality and efficiency...
by Peter Olofsson, Mikael Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Praise for the First Edition
". . . an excellent textbook . . . well organized and neatly written."
—Mathematical Reviews
". . . amazingly interesting . . ."
—Technometrics
Thoroughly updated to showcase the interrelationships between probability, statistics,...
by T. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.
Quantitative Sociodynamics
Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena. Unfortunately, the ?rst edition appeared at a quite prohibitive price. This was one reason...
by Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change...
Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Application
16th International Conference, GDN 2016, Bellingham, WA, USA, June 20-24, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2016, held in Bellingham, WA, USA, in June 2016. The GDN meetings aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide spectrum of fields, including economics, management,...
Voices in A.I., Volume 1
Conversations with Leading Thinkers in Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This first volume of Voices in AI: Conversations with Leading Thinkers in Artificial Intelligence consists of seven transcripts from the Voices in AI podcast. This volume includes interviews with experts from Google, Oxford, Stanford, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, argodesign, and the University of Montreal.