Operations Research category: 1119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation. The editors assembled thirteen contributions from leading scholars to present a unified voice, standardize terminology, and assess the state-of-the-art.
There are three main clusters...
by Lawrence D. Stone, Johannes O. Royset, Alan R. Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target. It then develops the theory of optimal search for a moving target, providing algorithms for computing optimal plans and examples of their use. Next it develops methods for computing optimal search plans involving...
by Terry L. Friesz, David Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is a book about infrastructure networks that are intrinsically nonlinear. The networks considered range from vehicular networks to electric power networks to data networks.
The main point of view taken is that of mathematical programming in concert with finite-dimensional variational inequality...
Contemporary Logistics in China
Collaboration and Reciprocation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled “Contemporary Logistics in China,” authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University. In the spirit of the seven preceding annual volumes, this book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition on the...
by Xiaoqiang Cai, Xian Zhou, Xianyi Wu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Many interesting and important results on stochastic scheduling problems have been developed in recent years, with the aid of probability theory. This book provides a comprehensive and unified coverage of studies in stochastic scheduling. The objective is two-fold: (i) to summarize the elementary...
Global Optimization
A Stochastic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This self-contained monograph presents a new stochastic approach to global optimization problems arising in a variety of disciplines including mathematics, operations research, engineering, and economics. The volume deals with constrained and unconstrained problems and puts a special emphasis on large...
International business strategy
Downsizing and globalization - why are these strategies used by companies, and what implications do they have for work and daily life in the economically more developed nations?
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: A, Monash University Melbourne, language: English, abstract: Strategy is the choice of direction and scope that a firm takes on a long term and involves the configuration of the firm status with a view...
Work-life balance in organisations
Analysing work-life balance in Germany and presenting BMW as a family-friendly German company
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,7, Griffith University, language: English, abstract: 1.Introduction The following paper describes the work-life balance movement in Germany and the work-life balance policies of the German car and...
Sustainable Supply Chains
Models, Methods, and Public Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefits or what has been termed "the triple bottom line." While pursuing profit, socially responsible companies should be sensitive to the environment...
by James Tallant
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 100.00, University of Phoenix, course: BUS 475 Integrated Business Topics, language: English, abstract: Importance of Strategic Planning and Management in the Business Environment The business that the author...
by Miriam Mennen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 71 % - A, University of Sunderland, course: Managing Principles and Practice, language: English, abstract: In this essay Debenhams leadership is going to be examined. First, company's main events will be highlighted....
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Business Problems and Solutions with R, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
To succeed with predictive analytics, you must understand it on three levels:
Strategy and management
Methods and models
Technology and code
This up-to-the-minute reference thoroughly covers all three categories.
Now fully updated, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Technological Solutions for Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Management highlights theories and technological growth in applied research as well as advances in logistics, supply chains, and industry experiences. Aiming to enhance the expansions made towards an efficient and sustainable economy, this...
Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
From the Preface:
Blending ideas from operations research, music psychology, music theory, and cognitive science, this book aims to tell a coherent story of how tonality pervades our experience, and hence our models, of music.
The story is told through the developmental stages of the...