Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Dynamics and Mechanisms -- Chapter 2: Economic development at G7 country level: taxonomy of economic development ranking and proposition of a strategic entrepreneurship model of development -- Chapter 3: A study on the impact of the...

The resource transfer problem (RTP) is a modeling and solution framework for integrated complex scheduling and rich vehicle routing problems. It allows the modeling of a wide variety of scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, their combination with integrated problems, as well as various...

Introduction -- Mathematical Methods Used -- New Robust Analytic Tools -- Spline Regression Models for Complex Multi-Model Regulatory Networks -- Robust Optimization in Spline Regression Models for Regulatory Networks Under Polyhedral Uncertainty -- Real-World Application with Our Robust Tools...

Research and development of novel medicines for human therapy commonly takes over a decade before significant revenues from sales are forthcoming. How can biotechnology companies be founded and grow successfully in an industry with such extended innovation processes? The book investigates this...

This book is on the theory and practice of quantitative financial research that is taking place in Europe. It tries to demonstrate the variety of research that is currently being undertaken. This ranges from the practical, eg. - the financing of small firms in the Netherlands -the use of...

Project Scheduling is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources over time. The rich optimisation models with time windows that are treated in this book cover a multitude of practical decision problems arising in diverse application areas such as construction engineering or make-to-order...

The book introduces BROCOM, an approach for a business rule-oriented conceptual modeling which is supported by BURRO, a business rule repository. Prior to focus on the modeling of business rules, their relevance in organizational approaches of Business Administration is discussed and...

Using probabilistic methods and economic principle of maximization, the book studies: performance of different majority rules, independence versus cooperation among the members of an organization in reaching a decision, consequences of the presence of a leader on the performance of a decision...

This book is devoted to the 19th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling. Its basic aim is to present some new operational approaches (i.e. neural nets, multicriteria analysis, new optimization algorithms, decision software, etc.) for financial modelling, both in a theoretical...

The articles included in the volume cover a range of diverse topics linked by a common theme: the use of formal modelling techniques to promote better understanding of financial markets and improve management of financial operations. Apart from a theoretical discussion, most of the papers model...