Project/Casebook to Accompany Systems Analysis and Design
by Shih-Yen Wu and Margaret S. Wu
Optimization in Public Transportation (Springer Optimization and Its Applications, #3)
by Anita Schc6bel and Anita Schobel
Advances in Optimization and Decision Science for Society, Services and Enterprises (AIRO Springer, #3)
The contributions included in the volume are drawn from presentations at ODS2019 - International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, which was the 49th annual meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO) held at Genoa, Italy, on 4-7 September 2019. This book presents very recent results in the field of Optimization and Decision Science. While the book is addressed primarily to the Operations Research (OR) community, the interdisciplinary contents ensure that it will a...
Solving Large-Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries
by Georgios M. Kopanos and Luis Puigjaner
This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are applicable to scenarios and countries around the wo...
Modern Statistical, Systems, and GPSS Simulation, Second Edition
by Zaven A Karian and Edward J Dudewicz
Modern Statistical, Systems, and GPSS Simulation, Second Edition introduces the theory and implementation of discrete-event simulation. This text:establishes a theoretical basis for simulation methodology provides details of an important simulation language (GPSS - General Purpose Simulation System) integrates these two elements in a systems simulation case studyValuable additions to the second edition include coverage of random number generators with astronomic period, new entropy-based tests o...
Fuzzy Logic Techniques in Power Systems (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, v. 11)
The book covers recent developments in applications of fuzzy logic techniques in power system control, planning, operation and design including problems of incorporating human expert knowledge in modeling, simulation and optimization. It gives readers a complete picture of fuzzy sets implementation in power systems demonstrating benefits by presentation of practical application and case studies.This book introduces power system engineers and managers, researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate...
This book provides essential information on emergency management. It is composed of two parts, addressing the basic theory and related methods of emergency management, including risk management, coordination management, crisis management and disaster management. By putting the emphasis on interdisciplinary, systematic perspectives and building a bridge between basic knowledge and further research, it is well suited as an emergency management textbook and offers a valuable guide to prepare reader...
Process planning detennines how a product is to be manufactured and is therefore a key element in the manufacturing process. It plays a major part in detennining the cost of components and affects all factory activities, company competitiveness, production planning, production efficiency and product quality. It is a crucial link between design and manufacturing. In spite of the importance of process planning in the manufacturing cycle, there is no fonnal methodology which can be used, or can hel...
Operational Research
This book provides a systematic introduction to linguistic aggregation operators, linguistic preference relations, and various models and approaches to multi-attribute decision making with linguistic information. Offers practical examples, tables and figures.
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance
by Catherine J Morrison Paul
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for students, researchers or consultants who wish to model, construct, interpret, and use economic performance measures. The topical emphasis is on productivity growth and its dependence on the cost structure. The methodological focus is on application of the tools of economic analysis - the `thinking structure' provided by microeconomic theory - to measure technological or cost structu...
Intelligent Decision Aiding Systems Based on Multiple Criteria for Financial Engineering
Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis
Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis presents the most recent developments in the field, together with their applications, mainly in the areas of insurance, finance, forecasting and marketing. In addition, the possible interactions between data analysis, artificial intelligence, decision support systems and multicriteria analysis are examined by top researchers. Audience: A wide readership drawn from theoretical and applied mathematicians, such as operations researchers,...
Causes of Supply Chain Disruptions; An Empirical Analysis in Cold Chains for Food and Pharmaceuticals
Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions. A terminological, theoretical and practical basis for the analysis of supply chain disruptions is developed to create a consistent and transferable research framework. To better understand why certain supply chains are more susceptible to disruptions than others, this framework is then tested empirically in cold chain logistics. Based on a survey with approximately 60 sup...
Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes (Studies in Choice and Welfare)
by William V Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley
This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist. It is well known that hypothetical examples of many different paradoxical election outcomes can be developed, but this analysis examines factors that are related to the process by which voters form their preferences on candidates that will significantly reduce the likelihood that such voting paradoxes will ever actually be observed. It is found that extreme f...
Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games (Theory and Decision Library (eBook)) (Theory and Decision Library C, #34)
by Bezalel Peleg and Peter Sudh Lter
Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games systematically studies the main solutions of cooperative games: the core, bargaining set, kernel, nucleolus, and the Shapley value of TU games, and the core, the Shapley value, and the ordinal bargaining set of NTU games. To each solution a separate chapter is devoted, in which its properties are investigated in full detail. Moreover, important variants are defined or even intensively analyzed. Separate chapters cover continuity, dynamics, and geom...
Multicriteria Decision Aid Methods for the Prediction of Business Failure
Nonlinear Programming and Variational Inequality Problems
by Prof Michael Patriksson
Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, inc...
The area of virtual organizations, and industrial virtual enterprises in particular, is attracting a large and growing interest both in terms of the research and development and the implementation of new business practices. An ever-increasing number of international projects and national initiatives have been launched recently. Most of the earlier efforts are focused on the development of supporting infrastructures, although more and more initiatives now pursue the exploitation of this concept i...