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Advances in Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
Springer 2008; US$ 109.99Brings the reader into contact with the accomplished progress in individual decision making through the contributions to uncertainty modeling and behavioral decision making. This work also introduces the reader to the subtle issues to be resolved for rational choice under uncertainty. more...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
Springer 2008; US$ 69.95Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008. more...
Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality
McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 30.00“This book is the most comprehensive discussion of all the elements that go into producing superior products that I have read. I have thought a lot about quality over many years, yet the thinking reflected throughout [this] discussion is a real eye-opener for me. For anyone seriously interested in quality, this is a must read.”. —Donald... more...
Retail Supply Chain Management
Springer 2009; US$ 119.99In the retail environment, characterized by product proliferation, price competition, expectations of service quality, and advances in technology, many organizations are struggling to maintain profitability. This work provides a review of methodologies that address the complex array of these problems. more...
Cellular Genetic Algorithms
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99Cellular Genetic Algorithms defines a new class of optimization algorithms based on the concepts of structured populations and Genetic Algorithms (GAs). The authors explain and demonstrate the validity of these cellular genetic algorithms throughout the book. This class of genetic algorithms is shown to produce impressive results on a whole range of... more...
Metaheuristic Procedures for Training Neutral Networks
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 139.99Provides implementations of metaheuristic methods for neural network training. This work gives the basic principles and fundamental ideas, which allow the readers to create successful training methods on their own. It aims to provide a coverage of the concepts, methods, and tools of this area of ANNs within the realm of continuous optimization. more...
Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms
Springer 2009; US$ 84.99Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice ? however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational supply chains, an additional, yet unresolved problem arises: due to confidentiality reasons, decentralized parties keep their local data private, which prevents an integrated... more...
Perspectives in Operations Research
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99Written by leading research scholars in the field of Operations Research, this book focuses on future perspectives in Operations Research. It takes a pivotal perspective of OR's history by examining trends and the future of the field. more...
Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship
Springer 2009; US$ 109.99The current economic era, characterized by the rapid and global dissemination of information and capital, has been called the "knowledge age," the "entrepreneurial society," and the "intangibles economy," among other labels. Technological and productivity improvements continue to shift the emphasis from the mastery of... more...
Designing Public Policies
Springer 2010; US$ 84.99This book presents a methodological approach for the joint design of economic and environmental policies. The starting point is the observation that, in practice, policy makers do not usually have a well-defined objective, but they are typically concerned about a number of economic and environmental indicators that conflict with each other. In view... more...









