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Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is a volume dedicated to selected applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) focused on three themes: economics, the social sciences, and the linking of measurement with human values.

This book provides the first unified treatment of logistics systems available to the field. There has been considerable growth in the logistics area and as a result, there is a need for a book that examines these developments as a systematic whole.

This book summarizes supply chain literature, offering approaches for mitigating supply chain risk and using industry examples and cases to highlight important concepts. Discusses ways to restore and stabilize supply chain operations after a major disruption.

This volume offers a framework to study the interaction of various factors related to risk and their influence on supply chain management. The scope of area covered includes operations management, decision analysis and business administration.

Written by a leading expert in Mathematical Programming methods, this book introduces students to the conceptual ideas of Linear Programming methodology and its generalizations. The book has a distinct application focus with emphasis on application problems.

Perishable Inventory Systems explores the benefits of a periodic review versus continuous review, and a look at a one-period newsvendor perishable inventory model. Topics include one-for-one policies, models with zero lead time, and optimal policies with positive lead time.

There are few more urgent topics in today's world, so full of ecological uncertainty. Hydropower Economics uses various econometric measures to examine sustainable alternative energy sources. Forsund has extended his model to include thermal power and wind power, too - forms of alternative energy that are taking on an ever larger profile.

Since the introduction of system signatures in Francisco Samaniego's 1985 paper, the properties of this technical concept have been examined, tested and proven in a wide variety of systems applications.

As supply chain management has matured, maintaining the precise flow of goods to manage schedules (and minimize inventories) on a just-in-time basis still presents major challenges.

This is a concise, readable introduction to the science and art of using modeling in logic for integer programming. References for further study are given at the end of each chapter, exercises are included, and applications in diverse fields are discussed.

This book concentrates on providing technical tools to make the user of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies independent of bulky optimization computations. These bulky computations have been a necessary, but limiting, characteristic of interactive MCDM methodologies and algorithms.

This new edition is expanded and updated, complete with end-of-chapter exercises. Outlines the recent development of Markov chain models for modeling queueing systems, manufacturing and re-manufacturing systems, inventory systems and financial risk management.

The new edition of this book shows how economists can use the analytical network process to supplement mathematical models, how it helps social scientists derive measurements for intangibles, and how engineers can link hard measurement to human values.

With a stress on interactive decision-making, this work breaks new ground by covering both the random nature of events related to environments, and the fuzziness of human judgements. The text runs from mathematical preliminaries to future research directions.

Authored by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this new edition has been comprehensively updated, with new material on contemporary models and methods including stochastic DEA models, material on Sharpe-ratio, and asset liability management.

This book integrates the key concepts of mathematical programming and constraint programming into a unified framework that allows them to be generalized and combined. It provides a powerful, high-level modeling solution for optimization problems.

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, particularly data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying theories, demonstrates the necessary calculations and discusses applications.

This book focuses on forecasting foreign exchange rates via artificial neural networks (ANNs), creating and applying the highly useful computational techniques of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to foreign-exchange rate forecasting.

This is an ideal textbook for students of experimental optimization techniques used in industrial production processes. It presents a detailed treatment of Bayesian Optimization approaches and it contains a mix of technical and practical sections.

Written by a leading authority on applying operational research to risk management, this book sets out improved methods of risk analysis that avoid the many pitfalls in assessing and managing risk where the probabilities of consequences are hard to define.

This book provides a broad and interdisciplinary foundation to engineering risks and to their financial valuation and pricing. It uses both narrative and mathematical techniques and includes numerous examples and applications.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the mathematical concepts and principles of industrial mathematics. It provides an understanding of the fundamental mathematical principles used in Industrial Mathematics/OR in modeling problems and application solutions.

This book provides models and procedures to be used by electricity market agents to make informed decisions under uncertainty. These procedures rely on well established stochastic programming models, which make them efficient and robust.

This book discusses systematically the many variations of vacation policy. The book discusses a variety of typical vacation model applications. Also, this is the first time G1/M/1 multi-server vacation models, both continuous and discrete, and the optimization and control issues have been presented in book form.

Project Selection Under Uncertainty is the result of a five-year research program on the selection of projects in New Product Development (NPD). This book takes a step in developing a theory that addresses the need for quantitative prioritization criteria within the broader strategic context of the R&D portfolios.

In supply chain management postponement is a deliberate to delay final manufacturing until a customer places an order. This work analyzes how both pull posteponement strategy and form postponement strategy can be leveraged to yield substantial benefits.

This book and its treatment of goal programming will help organizations meet targets and objectives. The book includes many worked-out examples and tutorial exercises, and is designed to demostrate and teach its readers good modeling practice.

Models & Methods for Project Selection systematically examines in this book treatment the latest work in the field of project selection modeling. These models are examined in two categorical streams: the management science stream and the financial model stream.

Intelligent Support Systems for Marketing Decisions examines new product development, market penetration strategies, and other marketing decisions utilizing a confluence of methods, including Decision Support Systems (DSS), Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Multicriteria Analysis.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible-but not simpler" Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated with it such as traffic congestion.