This book provides the conceptual and operational tools for understanding the mechanisms for assigning a rating to a network of companies. In it, the author explores the rating systems of corporate networks and analyses the link between rating and an enterprise network

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in...

Einleitung -- Individuelle Rationalität als Bedingung für kollektive Rationalität (Effizienz) von Finanzmärkten -- Der Rationalitätsbegriff im Kontext der Effizienzmarkthypothese und seine Probleme -- Die Effizienzmarkthypothese als instrumentalistisches Marktmodell -- Individuelles...

Jörg Sesselmann presents the first comprehensive guide to customer integration from a branding perspective. The author establishes a classification of the vast landscape of co-creation, co-design, co-production, interactive value creation and mass customization and evaluates benefits and...

Science of Information -- Part I Understanding Big Data -- Big Data Essentials -- Big Data Analytics -- Part II Understanding Big Data Systems -- Distributed File System -- MapReduce Programming Platform -- Part III Understanding Machine Learning -- Modeling and Algorithms -- Supervised Learning...

Introduction -- Fuzzy Set Theory -- Relational Databases and Fuzzy Classification -- Customer Relationship Management -- Fuzzy Customer Classes -- Fuzzy Classification Applied to Online Shops -- fCQL Toolkit -- Conclusion.

To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models. This book demonstrates the use of fuzzy logic for classification and segmentation in marketing campaigns. Based on practical experience as a data analyst and...

Funktionale, soziale und psychische Reintegrationsdimension als theoretischer Bezugsrahmen zur Typologiebildung -- Empirische Identifikation der Reintegrationstypologie auf Basis von quantitativen und qualitativen Daten im Längsschnittdesign -- Handlungsempfehlungen für das...

Kooperationen zwischen Unternehmen sind heute selbstverständlich geworden. Diese Entwicklung führt zu zahlreichen Begrifflichkeiten und Erklärungsansätzen, die der Vielfalt derartiger Organisationsformen nur bedingt gerecht werden. Eine allgemeine Theorie der Kooperationen fehlt gegenwärtig...

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services. The assignment of a patient to a DRG can be distinguished into billing- and operations-driven DRG classification. The topic of this monograph is operations-driven DRG classification, in which DRGs...