Operations Research category: 1119 books
by Shaun Snapp
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Planning horizons and timing settings are critical to controlling the behavior of planning applications. But few people understand the impact that timing settings in one APO application have on other APO applications, and what implications they have for controlling system output. APO is the most fully-featured...
Dynamic Capabilities
How Organisational Structures Affect Knowledge Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The concept of dynamic capabilities, especially in terms of organizational knowledge processes, has become the predominant paradigm for the explanation of competitive advantages. However, major unsolved - or at least insufficiently solved - problems are first their measurement and second their management...
The Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills for Taskwork and Teamwork to Control Complex Technical Systems
A Cognitive and Macroergonomics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book provides the first comprehensive literature review on the acquisition and retention of complex skills in High Reliability Organizations. Based on this review, it introduces a theoretical model of how skill and knowledge acquisition for complex tasks is accomplished and shows how this model...
Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide
A Walk with Global Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk with Global Leaders explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the...
Nonlinear Programming
Analysis and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Comprehensive and complete, this overview provides a single-volume treatment of key algorithms and theories. The author provides clear explanations of all theoretical aspects, with rigorous proof of most results. The two-part treatment begins with the derivation of optimality conditions and discussions...
Guide to Computational Modelling for Decision Processes
Theory, Algorithms, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This interdisciplinary reference and guide provides an introduction to modeling methodologies and models which form the starting point for deriving efficient and effective solution techniques, and presents a series of case studies that demonstrate how heuristic and analytical approaches may be used...
Action, Decision, and Intention
Studies in the Foundation of Action Theory as an Approach to Understanding Rationality and Decision
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Most of the papers in this collection are contributions to action theory intended to be of some relevance to one or another concern of decision theory, particularly to its application to concrete human behavior. Some of the papers touch only indirectly on problems of interest to decision theorists,...
Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 1)
21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This third edition updates and adds to the successful second edition and gives the reader a thorough description of PLM, providing them with a full understanding of the theory and the practical skills to implement PLM within their own business environment. This new and expanded edition is fully updated...
Integrated Project Management and Control
First Comes the Theory, then the Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book presents an integrated approach to monitoring projects in progress using Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management combined with Schedule Risk Analysis. Monitoring and controlling projects involves processes for identifying potential problems in a timely manner. When necessary, corrective...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources....
by Mark Sh. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
This book examines seven key combinatorial engineering frameworks (composite schemes consisting of algorithms and/or interactive procedures) for hierarchical modular (composite) systems. These frameworks are based on combinatorial optimization problems (e.g., knapsack problem, multiple choice problem,...
by Alexander J. Zaslavski
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Individual turnpike results are of great interest due to their numerous applications in engineering and in economic theory; in this book the study is focused on new results of turnpike phenomenon in linear optimal control problems. The book is intended for engineers as well as for mathematicians interested...
Solutions Manual to accompany Nonlinear Programming
Theory and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
As the Solutions Manual, this book is meant to accompany the main title, Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms, Third Edition. This book presents recent developments of key topics in nonlinear programming (NLP) using a logical and self-contained format. The volume is divided into three sections:...
Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners
HCSE, Lyon, France, May 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations. Statistical analyses play an important role in these methods with the implications of simulation and modeling applied to the future of health care. Papers...