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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...
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Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...
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This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP … the AHP methodology and/or as an AHP hands-on supplement for standard OR textbooks. AHP is an intuitive and mathematically … simple methodology in the field of multi-criteria decision making. Because of this, most AHP books assume the reader has …
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The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a prominent and powerful tool for making decisions in situations involving … multiple objectives. Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2nd Edition applies the AHP … measurement with human values. For economists, the AHP offers a substantially different approach to dealing with economic problems …
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Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Multicriteria Decision Making: Prioritizing Divergent Intangible Humane Acts …
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The Analytic Network Process (ANP) developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This book is a selection of applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to...
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Komplexität als Problemstellung in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Stand der Forschung zu Komplexität und ihren Wirkungen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Konzeptioneller Bezugsrahmen der Komplexität und ihrer Wirkungen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Analytic Network Process als Instrument...
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1: Introduction -- 2: A new consistency test index for the data in the AHP/ANP.- 2.1 Basics of the AHP/ANP -- 2.1.1 The … reciprocal pairwise comparison matrix -- 2.1.2 Basics of the AHP -- 2.1.3 Basics of the ANP -- 2.2 Consistency test issue in the … AHP/ANP.- 2.2.1. Analysis of the consistency ratio (CR) method -- 2.2.2 The issues of consistency test in the AHP/ANP -- 2 …
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Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...
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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...
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