Part I: Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Portfolio Optimization -- 1. Utility: Theories and Models -- 2. Portfolio Optimization -- 3. Behavioral Portfolio Theory -- 4. A Comparative Study on PSO with Other Metaheuristic Methods -- 5. Mathematical Model of Particle Swarm Optimization:...

An Overview of Decisions, Performance and Analytics in Supply Chain Management -- Intelligent Digital Supply Chains -- Product Life Cycle Optimization Model for Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Design -- Supply Chain Risk Management in Indian Manufacturing Industries: An Empirical Study and a...

Chapter 1. Prescriptive Analytics in Internet of Things With Concentration on Deep Learning -- Chapter 2. Internet of Things: Technologies & Applications -- Chapter 3. Internet of Things Cybersecurity -- Blockchain as First Securitisation Layer of an IOT Network -- Chapter 4. Using Other...

Optimization: Using Models, Validating Models, Solutions, Answers -- From the Problem to its Mathematical Formulation -- Mathematical Solution Techniques -- Problems Solvable Using Linear Programming -- How Optimization is Used in Practice: Case Studies in Linear Programming -- Modeling...

Chapter1: Simulation of Rail Operations -- Chapter2: Capacity Assessment in Railway Networks -- Chapter3: Aggregation methods for railway network design based on lifted Benders Cuts -- Chapter4: Freight Train Routing -- Chapter5: Robust Train Timetabling -- Chapter6: Modern Challenges in...

Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Analysis -- Chapter 2. Acceleration of large-scale DEA computations using random forest classification -- Chapter 3. The estimation of productive efficiency through machine learning techniques:...

Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has...

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book has twelve practical chapters. Elementary concepts and definitions are gradually built in Chapters 1-6 based upon four examples of one...

This book provides a broad coverage of the recent advances in robustness analysis in decision aiding, optimization, and analytics. It offers a comprehensive illustration of the challenges that robustness raises in different operations research and management science (OR/MS) contexts and the...