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  • Portfolio Decision Analysis

    Improved Methods for Resource Allocation

    Edited by Alec Morton, Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities. In particular, it ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Elicitation

    The Science and Art of Structuring Judgement

    Edited by John Quigley, Alec Morton, Luis C. Dias ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is about elicitation: the facilitation of the quantitative expression of subjective judgement about matters of fact, interacting with subject experts, or about matters of value, interacting with decision makers or stakeholders. It offers an integrated presentation of procedures and processes that allow analysts and experts to think clearly about numbers, particularly the inputs for ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

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  • Retail Analytics

    Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing

    by Anna-Lena Sachs ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scanner systems can be used to improve inventory decisions, and develops a data-driven approach that integrates demand forecasting and inventory management for perishable products, while taking unobservable lost sales and substitution into account in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Retail Category Management

    Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning

    by Alexander Hübner ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing product variety and striving towards high service levels, the complexity of managing retail business and its operations is growing enormously. Retailers need to match consumer demand with shelf supply ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling

    Edited by Randolph Hall ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems. Over 12 chapters, the authors cover aspects of setting appointments, allocating healthcare resources, and planning to ensure that capacity matches needs for ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Distribution Planning and Control

    Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management

    by David Frederick Ross ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This third edition provides operations management students, academics and professionals with a fully up-to-date, practical and comprehensive sourcebook in the science of distribution and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Its objective is not only to discover the roots and detail the techniques of supply and delivery channel networks, but also to explore the impact of the merger of SCM concepts and ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Rethinking Rational Choice Theory

    A Companion on Rational and Moral Action

    by Jan de Jonge ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Managing Complex, High Risk Projects

    A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management

    by Franck Marle, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into project management and handling complexity-driven risks, this book explores propagation effects, non-linear consequences, loops, and the emergence of positive properties that may occur over the course of a project.This book presents an introduction to project management and analysis of traditional project management approaches and their limits regarding complexity. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Managing Service Productivity

    Using Frontier Efficiency Methodologies and Multicriteria Decision Making for Improving Service Performance

    Edited by Emilyn Cabanda, Ali Emrouznejad ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This volume describes how frontier efficiency methodologies such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and other techniques such as multi-criteria decision making can help service industries to improve their performance by providing a ranking of best-practice efficient service units and by identifying sources of inefficiency for each service unit. It explains how they can be used to determine ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Rights and Decisions

    Formal Models of Law and Liberalism

    by Martin V.B.P.M. van Hees ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The game-theoretic analysis of rights forms a rapidly growing field of study to which this book makes an important contribution. Van Hees combines the game-theoretic approach with the results and tools from logic, in particular from the logic of norms. The resulting synthesis between logic and game theory provides a firm foundation for the game-theoretic approach. The analysis shows how different ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management

    Edited by Beverly Pasian, Rodney Turner ...
    Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research of and in project management. Project management as a discipline has experienced near-exponential growth in its application across the business and not-for-profit sectors. This second edition of the authoritative reference book offers a substantial update on the first edition with ... Read more

    $159.99 USD

  • Optimization for Decision Making

    Linear and Quadratic Models

    by Katta G. Murty ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Linear programming (LP), modeling, and optimization are very much the fundamentals of OR, and no academic program is complete without them. No matter how highly developed one’s LP skills are, however, if a fine appreciation for modeling isn’t developed to make the best use of those skills, then the truly ‘best solutions’ are often not realized, and efforts go wasted.Katta Murty studied LP with ... Read more

    $89.99 USD