1. What is Optimal Control Theory? -- 2. The Maximum Principle: Continuous Time -- 3. The Maximum Principle: Mixed Inequality Constraints -- 4. The Maximum Principle: Pure State and Mixed Inequality Constraints -- 5. Applications to Finance -- 6. Applications to Production and Inventory -- 7....

Chapter 1: The Cobb-Douglas production function for an exponential model -- Chapter 2: Threshold Unit Root Tests with Smooth Transitions -- Chapter 3: Jump connectedness in the European foreign exchange market -- Chapter 4:Modeling Currency Exchange Data with Asymmetric Copula Functions --...

Part 1: The Digital Transformation Social Mindset -- Chapter 1: Introduction - Looking for a social soul to transform -- Chapter 2: An unpredictable era at the time of Covid-19 -- Chapter 3: The Digital Transformation Social Mindset -- Part II: The Four Paradigm Model -- Chapter 4: The Digital...

Introduction: Motivation and Research Setting -- Foundations: Conceptual Background -- Study 1: Supporting Participants in Creative Processes with Persuasive Technology -- Study 2: Categorizing Persuasive Technology for Participatory Design -- Study 3: Modelling and Creating Persuasive...

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:...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Applied Operations Research and Financial Modeling in Energy (André Dorsman) -- Chapter 2. Optimization Methods on Electricity Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning Problem (Mahdi Noorizadegan) -- Chapter 3. Demand-Driven Electricity Supply Options of Electric...

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. Neutrosophical Plant Hybridization in Decision-Making Problems -- Chapter 2. Multi-criteria Decision Making based on Quadripartitioned Neutrosophic Cross-Entropy -- Chapter 3. New entropy, similarity measures of interval valued neutrosphic sets and application in supplier selection --...

Optimization of Inventory and Transportation in Supply Chains -- Scheduling in Manufacturing and Service Systems -- Forecasting and Information Analysis in Supply Chains -- Soft Computing and Machine Learning Techniques and Applications in Operations and Supply Chain Management -- Logistics and...

Part I: Reviews/Overviews -- 1. Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education: An Overview -- 2. A Systematic and Updated Review of the Literature on Higher Education Marketing 2005 –2019 -- 3. Overview of Simulation in Higher Education: Methods and Applications -- 4. Managing...