Operations Research category: 1119 books
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems
New Findings and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems. It explores the challenges of and approaches to complexity from a broad range of disciplines, including big data, health care, medicine, mathematics, mechanical and systems engineering, air traffic...
Statistical Process Control for the Food Industry
A Guide for Practitioners and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
A comprehensive treatment for implementing Statistical Process Control (SPC) in the food industry
This book provides managers, engineers, and practitioners with an overview of necessary and relevant tools of Statistical Process Control, a roadmap for their implementation, the importance of...
The Value of Information
Methodological Frontiers and New Applications in Environment and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space. Researchers in the health field have developed some of the most innovative methodologies for valuing information, used to help determine, for example, the value of diagnostics...
Advances in Metaheuristics
Applications in Engineering Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Advances in Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering Systems provides details on current approaches utilized in engineering optimization. It gives a comprehensive background on metaheuristic applications, focusing on main engineering sectors such as energy, process, and materials. It discusses...
by Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Kao-Yi Shen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
When people or computers need to make a decision, typically multiple conflicting criteria need to be evaluated; for example, when we buy a car, we need to consider safety, cost and comfort. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) has been researched for decades. Now as the rising trend of big-data...
Socially Responsible Investment
A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially responsible investment is a “new deal” championed by the institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence mutual funds and other collective investment schemes...
Random Regret-based Discrete Choice Modeling
A Tutorial
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This tutorial presents a hands-on introduction to a new discrete choice modeling approach based on the behavioral notion of regret-minimization. This so-called Random Regret Minimization-approach (RRM) forms a counterpart of the Random Utility Maximization-approach (RUM) to discrete choice modeling,...
Game Theory, Experience, Rationality
Foundations of Social Sciences, Economics and Ethics in honor of John C. Harsanyi
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
When von Neumann's and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior appeared in 1944, one thought that a complete theory of strategic social behavior had appeared out of nowhere. However, game theory has, to this very day, remained a fast-growing assemblage of models which have gradually been...
by David G. Luenberger, Yinyu Ye
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This new edition covers the central concepts of practical optimization techniques, with an emphasis on methods that are both state-of-the-art and popular. One major insight is the connection between the purely analytical character of an optimization problem and the behavior of algorithms used to solve...
by Masatoshi Sakawa, Hitoshi Yano, Ichiro Nishizaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Although several books or monographs on multiobjective optimization under uncertainty have been published, there seems to be no book which starts with an introductory chapter of linear programming and is designed to incorporate both fuzziness and randomness into multiobjective programming in a unified...
Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on-board...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
A nice night of October 2007, in Beijing, during the XV World Conference on ITS a number of colleagues met informally for a dinner party that spontaneously became a vivid discussion on the importance of traffic data for all types of p- poses. Researchers can hardly do any progress in modeling, developing,...
Financial Modelling with Forward-looking Information
An Intuitive Approach to Asset Pricing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book focuses on modelling financial information flows and information-based asset pricing framework. After introducing the fundamental properties of the framework, it presents a short information-theoretic perspective with a view to quantifying the information content of financial signals, and...
Intelligent Techniques in Engineering Management
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book presents recently developed intelligent techniques with applications and theory in the area of engineering management. The involved applications of intelligent techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy sets, Tabu search, genetic algorithms, etc. will be useful for engineering managers, postgraduate...