Operations Research category: 1119 books

Extrait : "Une obscurité profonde enveloppe la plupart des grandes découvertes qui ont accompli dans l'humanité plus qu'un progrès, une révolution, une transformation. L'antiquité avait imaginé à cet égard une explication fort simple et surtout fort ingénieuse. Dans l'impossibilité de déterminer...

Wettbewerbsvorteile sind in dynamischen Umwelten flüchtig und müssen immer wieder aufs Neue gewonnen werden. Unternehmen sind nicht selten mit der Aufrechterhaltung der strategischen Balance zwischen Exploitation bestehender und Exploration neuer Geschäftspotenziale überfordert. Diese Arbeit untersucht...

In recent years, there has been a growing debate, particularly in the UK and Europe, over the merits of using discrete-event simulation (DES) and system dynamics (SD); there are now instances where both methodologies were employed on the same problem. This book details each method, comparing each...

Empresas e academia têm percebido que a utilização de ferramentas de Pesquisa Operacional pode gerar resultados rápidos, precisos e, por vezes, inesperados, o que possibilita a geração de informações valiosas para a determinação de novos investimentos e de eventuais expansões, para a definição...

Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes. This book presents and illustrates models, algorithms, principles, and software for deriving causal models from data and for using them...

« Nous nous rappelons encore l’émotion avec laquelle, étudiant, nous franchîmes pour la première fois le seuil d’une des grandes universités allemandes. C’était à Berlin. L’université est dans le quartier d’honneur de la ville, en face du palais du roi, près de la statue de Frédéric...

Et si le Nutella résultait en fait d'une mauvaise conservation du chocolat ? Si beaucoup d’inventions ou de découvertes réalisées par l’Homme aboutirent, certaines sont dues à des tentatives échouées, des erreurs ou simplement le fruit de la sérendipité, et sont pourtant devenues...

The goal of the new edition is to continue with a systems view of the world. For a more robust and worldwide market dissemination, the new edition has changed to a reference book. The project systems approach to project management, is needed in executing projects across countries and across cultures,...

In Arjun Sen's most recent book, Customer Karma, "Why stop at a one-night stand when you can have a lifetime relationship with your customer", he uncovers the blind spots of many well intentioned companies in the customer dating game. Arjun draws upon his broad experience in marketing, branding,...

This book investigates several duality approaches for vector optimization problems, while also comparing them. Special attention is paid to duality for linear vector optimization problems, for which a vector dual that avoids the shortcomings of the classical ones is proposed. Moreover, the book addresses...

This book addresses the intellectual foundations, function, modeling approaches and complexity of cellular automata; explores cellular automata in combination with genetic algorithms, neural networks and agents; and discusses the applications of cellular automata in economics, traffic and the spread...

The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nature...

For thirty years, the literature on decision-making and planning has been divided into two camps : work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained critic of fully rational decision-making theories has al­ ready a long history and a constant message...

This book outlines the latest trends in the use of multicriteria analysis in agriculture by highlighting recent applications for modeling agricultural decision-making. It introduces specific case studies using multicriteria analysis as a method for selecting multiattribute discrete alternatives or...