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  • Management, Leadership and Operations

    This book provides a one-of-a-kind comprehensive comparative survey of management, leadership and operational practices and research covering countries from all over the world, both developed and developing. Countries and regions included in the survey include the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Nordic Europe, Israel, Israel, China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, ... Read more

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  • Public Systems Modeling

    Methods for Identifying and Evaluating Alternative Plans and Policies

    Series Book 318 - International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
    This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization and ... Read more

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  • Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering

    Series series Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering
    This open access book reports on innovative methods, technologies and strategies for mastering uncertainty in technical systems. Despite the fact that current research on uncertainty is mainly focusing on uncertainty quantification and analysis, this book gives emphasis to innovative ways to master uncertainty in engineering design, production and product usage alike. It gathers authoritative ... Read more

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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  • Dynamics in Logistics

    Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany

    This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research ... Read more

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  • A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services

    Series series Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management
    Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion ... Read more

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  • Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization

    With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem

    Series series Graduate Texts in Operations Research
    This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. The book features a ... Read more

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  • Advances in Energy System Optimization

    Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization

    Series series Trends in Mathematics
    The papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids, and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies. While most papers have a clear ... Read more

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  • The Fundamental Elements of Strategy

    Concepts, Theories and Cases

    by Xiu-bao Yu ...
    Series series Management for Professionals
    This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not only in ... Read more

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  • Theory and Applications of Ordered Fuzzy Numbers

    A Tribute to Professor Witold Kosiński

    Series Book 356 - Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book offers comprehensive coverage on Ordered Fuzzy Numbers, providing readers with both the basic information and the necessary expertise to use them in a variety of real-world applications. The respective chapters, written by leading researchers, discuss the main techniques and applications, together with the advantages and ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-Making

    Series series FOM-Edition Research
    In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information regarding change in behavior and strategy adaption. Identifying non-routine problem-solving experts by efficient online assessments could lead to less volatile system performance, ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Bigdata Blockchain and Economy Management (ICBBEM 2022)

    Series Book 5 - Atlantis Highlights in Intelligent Systems
    This is an open access book.As a leading role in the global megatrend of scientific innovation, China has been creating a more and more open environment for scientific innovation, increasing the depth and breadth of academic cooperation, and building a community of innovation that benefits all. These endeavors have made new contribution to globalization and creating a community of shared future ... Read more

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  • The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope

    Series Book 18 - Methodos Series
    This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an institution, region, system or organisation. The quality is not chosen from the usual scalar qualities of: good, neutral and bad. Instead, it is a quality chosen between: harmony ... Read more

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  • Adventure Risk Research Symposium, Proceedings 2019-2021

    Proceedings from the Adventure Risk Research Symposium, 2019 to 2021. The Adventure Risk Research Symposium brings together adventure risk and safety researchers to present their findings and share ideas. The focus of the symposium is on qualitative and quantitative empiricism as a means of improving understanding or practice for wilderness and adventure risk management and safety.Download the app ... Read more

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  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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  • A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment

    Series series Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management
    Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion ... Read more

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  • Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

    Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

    Series series Understanding Complex Systems
    The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world ... Read more

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  • The Vision Zero Handbook

    Theory, Technology and Management for a Zero Casualty Policy

    This open access handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as ... Read more

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  • Innovative Priority Mechanisms in Service Operations

    Theory and Applications

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Service Science
    This book introduces the most advanced and recent theoretical research on innovative priority mechanisms in service settings. It covers cutting-edge topics on service innovations such as line-sitting, service-position-trading, referral priority programs, queue-scalping, distance-based priority, and dynamic priority policy. It also contains a variety of practical examples and applications which ... Read more

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  • Control Problems for Conservation Laws with Traffic Applications

    Modeling, Analysis, and Numerical Methods

    Series Book 99 - Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications
    Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first to investigate different types of control problems for conservation laws that arise in the modeling of vehicular traffic. Four types of control problems are discussed - boundary, ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the Business Innovation and Engineering Conference (BIEC 2022)

    Series Book 236 - Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
    This is an open access book.Business Innovation and Engineering Conference 2022 brings together contributions from students and scientists dealing with different aspects of business innovation and management, and we believe that there is also an equal number of promising study projects and prospectus results. The conference will be held at School of Business, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia at ... Read more

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  • Successfully Implementing ERP

    A Guide for SMB Owners and Executives

    Everything you always wanted to know about implementing and optimizing an ERP system in one place!Enterprise resource planning software is key to improving many companies’ productivity, but the complexity of installing and fine-tuning ERP systems can be intimidating.Many companies find installing and optimizing the software to be a grueling process that costs significant time and money, but it ... Read more

    $0.79 USD

  • The Law of Nature Mirrored - Volume 1

    Philosophy & Solution with Sentencing & Advancement

    The main topic of this book is the concept that 'sense and feel must exist for anything to ever be real and existent to mankind itself.'The result(s) can be expressed as a set of attributes (maybe "alpha(s)" is a better word) that can solve. However, being in air (Greek-resonant or Roman-reconciled) is not the best way to do measurement or survey...in wind-councils.*From my current perspective, a ... Read more

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