Operations Research (ICS Management and Management Science)
by Jay E. Aronson
Variational Analysis and Set Optimization
This book contains the latest advances in variational analysis and set / vector optimization, including uncertain optimization, optimal control and bilevel optimization. Recent developments concerning scalarization techniques, necessary and sufficient optimality conditions and duality statements are given. New numerical methods for efficiently solving set optimization problems are provided. Moreover, applications in economics, finance and risk theory are discussed. Summary The objective of thi...
Performance Measurement with Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, #309)
The intensity of global competition and ever-increasing economic uncertainties has led organizations to search for more efficient and effective ways to manage their business operations. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely used as a conceptually simple yet powerful tool for evaluating organizational productivity and performance. Fuzzy DEA (FDEA) is a promising extension of the conventional DEA proposed for dealing with imprecise and ambiguous data in performance measurement problems....
The literature on systems seems to have been growing almost expo nentially during the last decade and one may question whether there is need for another book. In the author's view, most of the literature on 'systems' is either technical in mathematical sense or technical ifF engineering sense (with technical words such as noise, filtering etc. ) and not easily accessible to researchers is other fields, in particular not to economists, econometricians and quantitative researchers in so cial sci...
Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Fuzzy Sets (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
Using numerical examples to illustrate their concepts and results, this book examines recently developed fuzzy multi-criteria methods, such as Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS, Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS & DEA-AHP, Intuitionistic VIKOR, Pythagorean WASPAS, Pythagorean ENTROPI, Hesitant CBD, Hesitant MABAC, Triangular EDAS, Triangular PROMETHEE, q-Rung Orthopair COPRAS, and Fuzzy Type – 2 ELECTRE. Each chapter covers practical applications in addition to fresh developments and results. Given its str...
Customer-Oriented Global Supply Chains: Concepts for Effective Management
Global supply chain has continued to gain great attention in recent decades due to globalization and economic policies by companies striving to gain bigger market share and countries that make every effort for a freer trade. The concept of supply chain has evolved progressively over time, from simple supplier systems with one or two suppliers to global chains with complex networks of suppliers, vendors, warehouses, manufacturers, shippers, wholesalers, and/or retailers. Customer-Oriented Global...
Hrm in a Knowledge Based Economy. International Journal of Manpower, Volume 28, Issue 3/4
by Ivan Svetlik
There’s a revolution going on today, much like several that have preceded the current one. A few hundred years ago, the introduction of double entry bookkeeping played a key role in allowing business enterprises to not just start opening numerous, geographically separate branches, but also start to employ more people without having to insist on impeccable credentials. This meant that businesses were no longer restricted to a size that could be staffed primarily by family members. Around a hundre...
Recent Advances In Stochastic Operations Research
Operations research uses quantitative models to analyze and predict the behavior of systems and to provide information for decision makers. Two key concepts in operations research are optimization and uncertainty. This volume consists of a collection of peer reviewed papers from the International Workshop on Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research (RASOR 2005), August 25-26, 2005, Canmore, Alberta, Canada. In particular, the book focusses on models in stochastic operations research, in...
This proceedings volume contains extended abstracts of talks presented at the 18th Symposium on Operations Research held at the University of Cologne, September 1-3, 1993. The Symposia on Operations Research are the annual meetings of the Gesellschaft fiir Mathematik, Okonometrie und Operations Research (GMOOR), a scientific society providing a link between research and applications in the areas of applied mathematics, economics and operations research. The broad range of interests and scientifi...
Studies in Quantitative Decision Making (Asset Analytics)
This edited volume is an in-depth collation of the usage of different quantitative decision making techniques in practical areas such as lean & green supply chain, reverse logistics, perishable logistics, closed loop supply chain, sustainable project management, retail management, block chain applications, optimal supplier selection problem, demand/supply modelling, forecasting under uncertainties, scheduling & sequencing, resource constraint logistics, dynamic network supply chain, risk evaluat...
Advances in Distribution Logistics (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #460)
Distribution logistics have been strongly affected by recent economic trends: globalization of markets, deregulation of the European freight traffic, a growing part of just-in-time deliveries and both increased competition and strategic cooperation between all parties involved. The book covers in a systematic way the strategic, tactical and operational planning of distribution systems and processes. It gives an overview of the relevant quantitative models and techniques as well as of application...
Advances in Multiple Objective and Goal Programming (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #455)
This Volume contains 41 papers and comprises the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP'96) that was held at the Hotel Melia Costa del Sol, Torremolinos (15 km from Malaga), Spain, May 16-18, 1996. The Conference was attended by 86 people from 22 countries and 63 papers were presented. The Conference was the Second in the series of MOPGP conferences devoted to optimization topics in multiple criteria decision making (MC...
Production Theory and Its Applications (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #139)
Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science. The aim of these workshops is to organize a European network of research in the area in order to improve the jOint research on an international basis. Some of these workshops were directed towards the development of certain specialities. The meeting in November 1974 was arranged around the theme "Production Theory and its Applications". It was divid...
This is the first book completely devoted to controlled queueing systems. The book gathers the newest results of the theory of Markov decision processes related to queueing models and demonstrates their applications to main types of control in queueing systems, including control of arrivals, control of service mechanism, and control of service discipline. Emphasis is placed on conditions providing further "good" structural properties of Markov optimal strategies such as monotonicity, threshold o...
Cutting and Packing Problems
by Mutsunori Yagiura, Shunji Umetani, Shinji Imahori, and Yannan Hu
This book provides a comprehensive overview of practical cutting and packing problems, presenting practical algorithms for solving these problems from the perspective of combinatorial optimization. It also discusses the geometric properties and tools for cutting and packing problems. Problems of cutting and packing objects have been extensively studied for many years because of the numerous real-world applications-for instance, in the clothing, logistics, manufacturing, and material industries....
Fuzzy Cooperative Games (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, #72)
by Milan Mares
The book deals with the mathematical model of coalitional cooperation based on vague knowledge of its expected outcomes. This reality is described by the model of coalitional game (with or without transferable utility) in which the expected pay-offs are represented by fuzzy quantities or by fuzzy sets of real-valued vectors. This approach to the fuzziness in the bargaining is new and completes the existing literature on this topic by alternative views. The presentation does not demand deeper tha...
Introduction to Computational Optimization Models for Production Planning in a Supply Chain
by Stefan Vo_, David L Woodruff, and Stefan Voc
The book begins with an easy-to-read introduction to the concepts associated with the creation of optimization models for production planning. These concepts are then applied to well-known planning models, namely mrp and MRP II.From this foundation, fairly sophisticated models for supply chain management are developed. Another unique feature is that models are developed with an eye toward implementation. In fact, there is a chapter that provides explicit examples of implementation of the basic m...
Calculated Choices in Policy-Making
by Michiel S de Vries, Professor and Michiel S. de Vries
This is a work pabout making choices based on the evaluation of alternatives. It discusses the major problems in evaluating courses of action and examines the political contexts in which decisions are made. How can information derived from empirical research benefit a policy maker or decision maker, and how should this information be incorporated in the decision making process?