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by Sylvain H. Boko
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I woke up at 3:30 on a steamy December morning at my hotel at McCarthy Hill, Accra, to prepare to take the early morning Vanef-STC bus operating on the Accra-Kumasi line. At 4am, the front desk called to inform me that I had requested a 3:45am wake-up time the night before. I figured a IS-minute tardiness...
Handbook of EOQ Inventory Problems
Stochastic and Deterministic Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) inventory model first appeared in 1913, and in its centennial, it is still one of the most important inventory models. Despite the abundance of both classical and new research results, there was (until now) no comprehensive reference source that provides the state-of-the-art...
Retail Supply Chain Management
Quantitative Models and Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
In today's retail environment, characterized by product proliferation, price competition, expectations of service quality, and advances in technology, many organizations are struggling to maintain profitability. Rigorous analytical methods have emerged as the most promising solution to many of these...
Demand for Communications Services – Insights and Perspectives
Essays in Honor of Lester D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This volume grew out of a conference organized by James Alleman and Paul Rappoport, conducted on October 10, 2011 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in honor of the work of Lester D. Taylor, whose pioneering work in demand and market analysis has had profound implications on research across a wide spectrum...
Institutions in Transition
Vietnamese State Bank Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"If you want to become a doctor, practice in a war; if you want to become an economist, practice in Vietnam". 1 Phan Van Tiem Vietnam is one of many countries presently undergoing fundamental institutional change: the market mechanism is replacing central planning. So far, the achievements...
Organizational Learning
Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations "forget"? Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another? These are among the questions addressed in Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring...
New Information Technologies in Organizational Processes
Field Studies and Theoretical Reflections on the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
A number of relatively new technologies, such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems, the Internet and intranets, have entered the organizational landscape. These technologies have not only enabled a wide range of social and organizational transformations, but have also challenged much of the received...
by Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change...
Optimization and Control of Bilinear Systems
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Covers developments in bilinear systems theory
Focuses on the control of open physical processes functioning in a non-equilibrium mode
Emphasis is on three primary disciplines: modern differential geometry, control of dynamical systems, and optimization theory
Includes applications...
by Jeffrey A. Dubin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Studies in Consumer Demand - Econometric Methods Applied to Market Data contains eight previously unpublished studies of consumer demand. Each study stands on its own as a complete econometric analysis of demand for a well-defined consumer product. The econometric methods range from simple regression...
by Jeffrey A. Dubin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Empirical Studies In Applied Economics presents nine previously unpublished analyses in monograph form. In this work, the topics are presented so that each chapter stands on its own. The emphasis is on the applications but attention is also given to the econometric and statistical issues for advanced...
Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research
Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Advances in social science research methodologies and data analytic methods are changing the way research in information systems is conducted. New developments in statistical software technologies for data mining (DM) such as regression splines or decision tree induction can be used to assist researchers...
by Airi Salminen, Frank Tompa
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This book provides extensive insight into the possibilities and challenges of XML in building new information management solutions in networked organizations. After a brief introduction to Web communication features and XML fundamentals, the book examines the benefits of adopting XML and illustrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we...