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  • Business Process Analytics

    Modeling, Simulation and Design

    by Manuel Laguna, Johan Marklund ...
    Series series Textbooks in Mathematics
    The fourth edition of this widely used textbook offers a new perspective. Previously titled Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Design, as the new title suggests, this book is about analytical business process modeling and design. However, this new edition introduces analytics to the title and to the presentation.The main objective of this book is to provide students with a comprehensive ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Metaheuristics for Business Analytics

    A Decision Modeling Approach

    by Abraham Duarte, Manuel Laguna, Rafael Marti ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This essential metaheuristics tutorial provides descriptions and practical applications in the area of business analytics. It addresses key problems in predictive and prescriptive analysis, while also illustrating how problems that arise in business analytics can be modelled and how metaheuristics can be used to find high-quality solutions. Readers will be introduced to decision-making problems ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Scatter Search

    Methodology and Implementations in C

    by Manuel Laguna, Rafael Martí ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The book Scatter Search by Manuel Laguna and Rafael Martí represents a long-awaited "missing link" in the literature of evolutionary methods. Scatter Search (SS)-together with its generalized form called Path Relinking-constitutes the only evolutionary approach that embraces a collection of principles from Tabu Search (TS), an approach popularly regarded to be divorced from evolutionary procedures ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • 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

  • The Golden Ticket

    P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

    by Lance Fortnow ...
    The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron ... Read more

    $15.99 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Real and Convex Analysis

    by Robert J Vanderbei, Erhan Çınlar ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book offers a first course in analysis for scientists and engineers. It can be used at the advanced undergraduate level or as part of the curriculum in a graduate program. The book is built around metric spaces. In the first three chapters, the authors lay the foundational material and cover the all-important “four-C’s”: convergence, completeness, compactness, and continuity. In subsequent ... Read more

    $80.99 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

  • Introduction to Nonsmooth Optimization

    Theory, Practice and Software

    by Adil Bagirov, Napsu Karmitsa, Marko M. Mäkelä ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is the first easy-to-read text on nonsmooth optimization (NSO, not necessarily differentiable optimization). Solving these kinds of problems plays a critical role in many industrial applications and real-world modeling systems, for example in the context of image denoising, optimal control, neural network training, data mining, economics and computational chemistry and physics. The book ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and social simulation modeling. The coverage of these approaches is supported by a discussion of the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Turnpike Phenomenon and Infinite Horizon Optimal Control

    by Alexander J. Zaslavski ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is devoted to the study of the turnpike phenomenon and describes the existence of solutions for a large variety of infinite horizon optimal control classes of problems. Chapter 1 provides introductory material on turnpike properties. Chapter 2 studies the turnpike phenomenon for discrete-time optimal control problems. The turnpike properties of autonomous problems with extended-value ... Read more

    $49.49 USD