Operations Research category: 1119 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
This book systematically describes the development of manufacturing servitization in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers a practical and theoretical reference guide to the manufacturing companies in the Asia-Pacific region, which is now a major global manufacturing center. Servitization is a fairly...
by Juan R. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Read This Guide To Business Trip, Travel Costs, Staying Healthy, Short Notice Travels, Jet Lag, Foreign Shores and More!
by Moshe Kress, Alan Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
"Combat Modeling" is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat. After a brief overview, authors Washburn and Kress present individual chapters on shooting without feedback; shooting with feedback; target defense; attrition models; game theory...
Heuristic Search
The Emerging Science of Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely...
Stochastic Optimization Methods in Finance and Energy
New Financial Products and Energy Market Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This volume presents a collection of contributions dedicated to applied problems in the financial and energy sectors that have been formulated and solved in a stochastic optimization framework. The invited authors represent a group of scientists and practitioners, who cooperated in recent years to...
Consensus Building in Group Decision Making
Searching the Consensus Path with Minimum Adjustments
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems. It puts forward new optimization-based decision support approaches to help decision-makers find roadmaps to consensus with minimum adjustments. Simulation...
Aviation Risk and Safety Management
Methods and Applications in Aviation Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies. The complexity of regulations overstrains the aviation stakeholders who seek to fully...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This pamphlet provides a standard framework for assessing the status and/or health of the logistics program in preparation for key milestone decision reviews in the materiel acquisition process. The use...
Building a Security Measures and Metrics Program
Proven Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Building a Security Measures and Metrics Program discusses the need for and benefits of a corporate security measures and metrics program. This 40-minute video presentation of narrated slides makes the case for a security metrics program: metrics provide invaluable insight on program effectiveness,...
by Seamus M. McGovern, Surendra M. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The definitive guide to the disassembly line
The Disassembly Line: Balancing and Modeling provides in-depth information on this complex process essential to remanufacturing, recycling, and environmentally conscious manufacturing. This pioneering work offers efficient techniques required to solve problems...
Integrated Project Management Sourcebook
A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
This handbook is a unique, comprehensive resource for professional project managers and students in project management courses that focuses on the integration between baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control, also known as Dynamic Scheduling or Integrated Project Management...
by Maartje E. Zonderland
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Appointment Planning in Outpatient Clinics and Diagnostic Facilities provides a concise overview of the medical and mathematical aspects of appointment planning in healthcare. This SpringerBrief specifically focuses on outpatient clinics and diagnostic facilities. It begins by introducing the topic...
Product Lifecycle Management
21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Product Lifecycle Management (2nd edition) explains what Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is, and why it's needed. It describes the environment in which products are developed, realised and supported, before looking at the basic components of PLM, such as the product, processes, applications, and...
Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy
New Robust, Reliable and Coherent Modelling Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis. The efficacy of public intervention on agriculture is largely determined by the existence...