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  • Railway Infrastructure Security

    Edited by Roberto Setola, Antonio Sforza, Valeria Vittorini, Concetta Pragliola ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security. Based on analyses by academics, technology providers and railway operators, it explains how to assess terrorist and criminal threats, design countermeasures, and implement effective security strategies. In so doing, it ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications

    Improving Professional Practice Through Simulation Training

    Edited by Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine, Nane Pehuet ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Drawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities. It seeks to identify those conditions under which simulation training has been shown to improve professional practice while employing extensive real ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Introduction to Transportation Analysis, Modeling and Simulation

    Computational Foundations and Multimodal Applications

    by Dietmar P.F. Möller, Bernard Schroer ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This comprehensive textbook/reference provides an in-depth overview of the key aspects of transportation analysis, with an emphasis on modeling real transportation systems and executing the models. Topics and features: presents comprehensive review questions at the end of each chapter, together with detailed case studies, useful links, references and suggestions for further reading; supplies a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks

    Edited by Andreas Pyka, Petra Ahrweiler, Nigel Gilbert ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong uncertainty, nonlinearities and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Information Quality and Management Accounting

    A Simulation Analysis of Biases in Costing Systems

    by Stephan Leitner ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    One of the main aims of management accounting is to provide managers with accurate information in order to provide a good basis for decision-making. There is evidence that the information provided by management accounting systems (MAS) is distorted and the occurrence of biases in accounting information is widely accepted among users of MAS. At the same time, the intensity and the frequency of use ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity

    From Problem Framing to Problem Solving

    Edited by Anthony J. Masys ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency. Such ‘wicked problems’ and messes are seemingly intractable problems characterized as value-laden, ambiguous, and unstable, that resist being tamed by classical problem solving. Actions and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Fire Safety of Historical Buildings

    Traditional Versus Innovative “Behavioural Design” Solutions by Using Wayfinding Systems

    by Gabriele Bernardini ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals’ fire safety in historic buildings. It outlines theoretical and operative issues, based on recent studies and international guidelines.Firstly, critical issues for Building Heritage fire safety are widely discussed, by including the modelling of human factor and man-environment-fire interference in these architectural spaces. A ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-based Modeling

    Voting Systems, Health Care, Military, and Manufacturing

    by Theodore T. Allen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Discrete event simulation and agent-based modeling are increasingly recognized as critical for diagnosing and solving process issues in complex systems. Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-based Modeling covers the techniques needed for success in all phases of simulation projects. These include: • Definition – The reader will learn how to plan a project and communicate using a ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Foundations and Methods of Stochastic Simulation

    A First Course

    by Barry Nelson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This graduate-level text covers modeling, programming and analysis of simulation experiments and provides a rigorous treatment of the foundations of simulation and why it works. It introduces object-oriented programming for simulation, covers both the probabilistic and statistical basis for simulation in a rigorous but accessible manner (providing all necessary background material); and provides a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Guide to Computational Modelling for Decision Processes

    Theory, Algorithms, Techniques and Applications

    Edited by Stuart Berry, Val Lowndes, Marcello Trovati ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This interdisciplinary reference and guide provides an introduction to modeling methodologies and models which form the starting point for deriving efficient and effective solution techniques, and presents a series of case studies that demonstrate how heuristic and analytical approaches may be used to solve large and complex problems. Topics and features: introduces the key modeling methods and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Quality Management in Reverse Logistics

    A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains

    Edited by Yiannis Nikolaidis ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Quality Management in Reverse Logistics intends to develop, collect, examine and evaluate a number of quality management (QM) tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process. In other words, the book aims to examine the existing relationship between various well-developed and thoroughly studied quality issues, ... Read more

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  • Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management

    International Conference, MS 2016, Teruel, Spain, July 4-5, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Jose M. Moneva, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, Raúl León ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and the University of Zaragoza through the GESES Research Group, with the support of the SoGReS-MF Research Group from University Jaume I. This edition of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD