Presents an accessible approach to the cost estimation tools, concepts, and techniques needed to support analytical and cost decisions Written with an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by...

Ideale Verbindung aus praktischer Planung und modellgestützter Theorie. Das erfolgreiche Lehrbuch vernetzt alle Teilgebiete modellgestützter Planung aus Entscheidungstheorie, Operation Research, Investitionstheorie und Unternehmensplanung. Quantitative Planung wird dadurch als einheitlicher...

Introduction -- Classic regression metamodels and their designs -- Classic assumptions versus simulation practice -- Screening the many inputs of realistic simulation models -- Kriging metamodels and their designs -- Simulation optimization.

Scatter Search and Path Relinking: Advances and Applications -- An Introduction to Tabu Search -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming: Automatic Synthesis of Topologies and Numerical Parameters -- A Gentle Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Guided Local...