This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems. It presents two practically relevant, deterministic mathematical models: the capacitated planned maintenance problem (CPMP) and the weighted uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP)....

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL). The book examines and presents, in a systematic manner, computational probability methods that encompass data structures and algorithms. The developed...

This book about mathematics and methodology for economics is the result of the lifelong experience of the authors. It is written for university students as well as for students of applied sciences. This self-contained book does not assume any previous knowledge of high school mathematics and...

This book provides the first practical guide to the function and implementation of algorithmic differentiation in finance. Written in a highly accessible way, Algorithmic Differentiation Explained will take readers through all the major applications of AD in the derivatives setting with a focus...

In diesem Buch werden die Grundlagen des Opinion Minings dargestellt sowie mögliche Ansätze, Methoden und Algorithmen aus den Bereichen Text Mining, linguistische Algorithmen, semantische Technologien und Information Retrieval aufgezeigt. Beim Opinion Mining geht es darum, textuell vorliegende...

Introduction -- The Two-Machine Flow Shop -- Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop -- The m-Machine Flow Shop -- The Machine Flow Shop -- The Hybrid Flow Shop -- The No-Wait Flow Shop -- Blocking or Limited Buffers in Flow Shops -- Flexible Flow Shops -- Reentrant Flow Shops -- The Robust Flow Shops --...

Introduction -- Manufacturing and Re-manufacturing Systems -- A Hidden Markov Model for Customer Classification -- Markov Decision Processes for Customer Lifetime Value -- Higher-order Markov Chains -- Multivariate Markov Chains -- Hidden Markov Chains

Introduction -- Some Solution Schemes and Game Properties -- The Shapley Value and (Pre-Kernel) as a Fairness Concept -- Fair Division in Cournot Markets -- Some Preliminary Results -- A Pre-Kernel Characterization and Orthogonal Projection -- Characterization of the Pre-Kernel by Solution Sets...