Operations Research category: 1119 books
Scenario Thinking
Preparing Your Organization for the Future in an Unpredictable World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Develops scenario planning methods in ways that link scenario analysis to improved decision making, engage time-poor senior decision makers, attenuate decision makers’ tendency to deflect responsibility for bleak, negative scenario outcomes, and enhance causal analysis within scenario-storyline...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The Semantic Web has been a very important development in how knowledge is disseminated and manipulated on the Web, but it has been of particular importance to the flow of scientific knowledge, and will continue to shape how data is stored and accessed in a broad range of disciplines, including life...
Practical Decision Making using Super Decisions v3
An Introduction to the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers a simple introduction to the theory and practice of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. AHP is an intuitive and mathematically simple methodology in the field of multi-criteria decision making in Operational Research...
Sustainability in the Process Industry: Integration and Optimization
Integration and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Improve the energy efficiency of process industry practices
Sustainability in the Process Industry explains process integration and optimization and discusses applications for improving the energy and water efficiency of industrial as well as nonindustrial energy users. Approaches for adapting these...
Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling
Recent Advances in Banking and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance. In terms of empirical analysis techniques, Banking and Finance is a conservative discipline. As such,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems. Over 12 chapters, the authors cover aspects of setting...
Behavioral Decision Theory
Psychological and Mathematical Descriptions of Human Choice Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a combination...
Plan Prediction
Which Policy is Preferred by Which People?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "app", that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.
It chronicles the accumulated research wisdom behind the system’s reasoning, along with...
Blackett's War
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A Washington Post Notable Book
In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
There is intense interest in computer games. A total of 65 percent of all American households play computer games, and sales of such games increased 22.9 percent last year. The average amount of game playing time was found to be 13.2 hours per week. The popularity and market success of games is evident...
Handling Societal Complexity
A Study of the Theory of the Methodology of Societal Complexity and the COMPRAM Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This handbook for the Methodology of Societal Complexity describes the theoretical development of the field and lays the foundation for the application of the Compram Methodology in the context of addressing complex societal problems. As such, it offers a valuable resource for scientists, practitioners,...
Data Envelopment Analysis
A Handbook of Modeling Internal Structure and Network
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This handbook serves as a complement to the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (eds, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J, Zhu, 2011, Springer) in an effort to extend the frontier of DEA research. It provides a comprehensive source for the state-of-the art DEA modeling on internal structures and network...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and policy analysis presented int his book. During...
Data Envelopment Analysis
A Handbook of Empirical Studies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It includes a collection of 18 chapters written by DEA experts. Chapter 1 examines the performance of CEOs of U.S. banks and thrifts. Chapter 2 describes the network operational structure...