Preface -- Stream I: Continuous Optimization and Control -- Stream II: Discrete Optimization, Graphs and Networks -- Stream III: Decision Analysis, Decision Support -- Stream IV: Energy, Environment and Climate -- Stream V: Financial Modeling, Risk Management, Banking -- Stream VI: Game Theory,...

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2016, held in Rhodes, Greece, in June 2016, organized by the Institute IICREST in cooperation with BPM-D, Aristotle University of...

Market Research: Overcoming Incomplete, Inconsistent, or Outdated Data -- Network Structures Follow Network Strategies -- Designing Connectivity-Driven Network and Hub Structures -- Designing Asset-Productive Networks -- Case Studies -- Planning and Controlling Networks: Networking Higher Math,...

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data

Introduction -- City Logistics -- Attended Home Delivery -- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- Analysis of Floating Car Data -- Provision of Distance Matrices -- Evaluation of Information Models -- Routing in City Logistics -- Evaluation of Optimization Models -- Conclusions and Outlook

A Century of the EOQ -- Multi-period Lot-sizing with Stationary Demand: Extension to Forecast Horizons -- EOQ Models with Supply Disruptions -- Existence of EOQ and Its Evaluation: Some Cases of Stock Blow Down Dynamics Depending on Its Level -- Generalizing the Ordering Cost and Holding-Backlog...

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems. Many of these problems can be modeled as nonlinear optimization problems, but due to their complex nature, it is not always possible to solve them...

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management and economics. It brings to students the concept of the maximum principle in continuous and discrete time by using dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some...