Operations Research category: 1119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Virtually all nontrivial and modern service related problems and systems involve data volumes and types that clearly fall into what is presently meant as "big data", that is, are huge, heterogeneous, complex, distributed, etc.
Data mining is a series of processes which include collecting...
by Ignacy Kaliszewski, Janusz Miroforidis, Dmitry Podkopaev
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This textbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective. By using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, it avoids the limits and oversimplifications that can come with optimization models with one criterion. The book is presented in a concise form, addressing...
Metaheuristics for Business Analytics
A Decision Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics. It addresses key problems in predictive and prescriptive analysis, while also illustrating how problems that arise in business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics...
Professionals Making Judgments
The Professional Skill of Valuing and Assessing
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Professionals Making Judgments examines the role of judgment in professional work. The book makes the argument that too many studies of professionalism put emphasis on rational decision making. The more theoretical parts of the book are complemented by empirical studies of three distinct domains of professional practice.
Production Control Systems
A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper control policy in production processes....
Finding Meaning in Business
Theology, Ethics, and Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.
by Alejandro Castro Santos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Tesis del año 2015 en eltema Economía de las empresas - Negocios, Investigación de operaciones, Nota: 0, Universidad Autónoma de Durango (Instituto Tecnológico de Durango), Idioma: Español, Resumen: En este trabajo de investigación se busca reducir los costos por inventario que la empresa llamada...
The Dark Side of Management
A Secret History of Management Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
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Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 2)
The Devil is in the Details
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This second volume moves beyond a general introduction to product lifecycle management (PLM) and its principal elements to provide a more in-depth analysis of the subjects introduced in Volume 1 (21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation).
Providing insights into the emergence of PLM and...
by William P. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Mathematical Modeling for Business Analytics is written for decision makers at all levels. This book presents the latest tools and techniques available to help in the decision process. The interpretation and explanation of the results are crucial to understanding the strengths and limitations of modeling....
by Meilin Wen
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book is intended to present the milestones in the progression of uncertain Data envelopment analysis (DEA). Chapter 1 gives some basic introduction to uncertain theories, including probability theory, credibility theory, uncertainty theory and chance theory. Chapter 2 presents a comprehensive...
by Ricardo J. Machado, João M. Fernandes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book focuses on various topics related to engineering and management of requirements, in particular elicitation, negotiation, prioritisation, and documentation (whether with natural languages or with graphical models). The book provides methods and techniques that help to characterise, in...
Decision Support Systems IV - Information and Knowledge Management in Decision Processes
Euro Working Group Conferences, EWG-DSS 2014, Toulouse, France, June 10-13, 2014, and Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18, 2014, Revised Selected and Extended Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two events organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Toulouse, France and Barcelona, Spain, in June and July 2014. Overall, 8 papers were accepted for publication in...
by Zeshui Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This book offers an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the priority methods of intuitionistic preference relations, the consistency and consensus improving procedures for intuitionistic preference relations, the approaches to group decision making based on intuitionistic preference relations,...