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Guide To Task Analysisby B. Kirwan; L. K. Ainsworth
CRC Press 1992; US$ 73.95This work shows readers how to target task analysis TA resources effectively over the life cycle of a project from conceptual design Through To Systems Operation, Noting The Role Of TA In Safety And Quality assurance, minimizing operator error, more...
Shaping the Next One Hundred Yearsby Robert J. Lempert; Steven W. Popper; Steven C. Bankes
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The checkered history of predicting the future-e.g., "Man will never fly"-has dissuaded policymakers from considering the long-term effects of decisions. New analytic methods, enabled by modern computers, transform our ability to reason about the future. The authors here demonstrate a quantitative approach to long-term policy analysis (LTPA). Robust methods enable decisionmakers to examine a vast range of futures and design adaptive strategies to be robust across them. Using sustainable development as an example, the authors discuss how these methods apply to LTPA and a wide range of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty. more...
Systems Analysis and Designby Nandish V. Patel
Routledge 2004; US$ 64.95This book takes a unique approach to systems analysis and design by using an approach that provides learners with a critical personal framework. more...
Satisficing Games and Decision Makingby Wynn C. Stirling
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 50.00This book outlines an alternative approach to mathematical decision making, using novel algorithms and techniques to more closely model the way humans make decisions. It will be of great interest to engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians working on artificial intelligence and expert systems. more...
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysisby Jose Figueira; Salvatore Greco; Matthias Ehrgott
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 263.00MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS: State of the Art Surveys is the most comprehensive work available to survey the state of the art in MCDA to date. Its 25 chapters are organized in eight parts and are written by 52 international leading experts. Each of these parts covers one of the central streams of multiple criteria decision analysis literature. These literature streams are: MCDA today, Foundations of MCDA, Our Ranking Methods, Multiattribute Utility Theory, Non-Classical MCDA Approaches, Multiobjective Mathematical Programming, Applications, and MCDM Software. more...
An Annotated Timeline of Operations Researchby Saul I. Gass
Springer 2004; US$ 99.00An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History recounts the evolution of Operations Research (OR) as a new science - the science of decision making. Arising from the urgent operational issues of World War II, the philosophy and methodology of OR has permeated the resolution of decision problems in business, industry, and government. The Timeline chronicles the history of OR in the form of self-contained, expository entries. Each entry presents a concise explanation of the events and people under discussion, and provides key sources where further relevant information can be obtained. In addition, books and papers that have influenced the development of OR or helped to educate the first generations of OR academics and practitioners... more...
Parallel Metaheuristicsby Enrique Alba
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 143.00Solving complex optimization problems with parallel metaheuristics Parallel Metaheuristics brings together an international group of experts in parallelism and metaheuristics to provide a much-needed synthesis of these two fields. Readers discover how metaheuristic techniques can provide useful and practical solutions for a wide range of problems and application domains, with an emphasis on the fields of telecommunications and bioinformatics. This volume fills a long-existing gap, allowing researchers and practitioners to develop efficient metaheuristic algorithms to find solutions. The book is divided into three parts: * Part One: Introduction to Metaheuristics and Parallelism, including an Introduction to Metaheuristic Techniques, Measuring... more...
The Nonlinear Workbookby Willi-Hans Steeb
World Scientific 2005; US$ 111.80The study of nonlinear dynamical systems has advanced tremendously in the last 20 years, making a big impact on science and technology. This book provides all the techniques and methods used in nonlinear dynamics. The concepts and underlying mathematics are discussed in detail. The numerical and symbolic methods are implemented in C++, SymbolicC++ and Java. Object-oriented techniques are also applied. The book contains more than 150 ready-to-run programs. The text has also been designed for a one-year course at both the junior and senior levels in nonlinear dynamics. The topics discussed in the book are part of e-learning and distance learning courses conducted by the International School for Scientific Computing. more...
Stochastic Optimization Methodsby Kurt Marti
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2005; US$ 149.00Optimization problems arising in practice involve random parameters. For the computation of robust optimal solutions, i.e., optimal solutions being insensitive with respect to random parameter variations, deterministic substitute problems are needed. Based on the distribution of the random data, and using decision theoretical concepts, optimization problems under stochastic uncertainty are converted into deterministic substitute problems. Due to the occurring probabilities and expectations, approximative solution techniques must be applied. Deterministic and stochastic approximation methods and their analytical properties are provided: Taylor expansion, regression and response surface methods, probability inequalities, First Order Reliability... more...
Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbookby Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
CRC Press 2005; US$ 109.95This handbook sets out the theory and practice of decision diagrams (DDs) as applied to the representation and manipulation of logic functions, focusing on the use of DDs for analysis and design of micro- and nanoelectronic integrated circuits (nanoICs). Material is organized in four parts consisting of self-contained chapters written in a tutorial more...









