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  • Multistage Stochastic Optimization

    by Georg Ch. Pflug, Alois Pichler ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Multistage stochastic optimization problems appear in many ways in finance, insurance, energy production and trading, logistics and transportation, among other areas. They describe decision situations under uncertainty and with a longer planning horizon. This book contains a comprehensive treatment of today’s state of the art in multistage stochastic optimization. It covers the mathematical ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Handbook of Risk Management in Energy Production and Trading

    Edited by Georg Ch. Pflug, Raimund M. Kovacevic, Maria Teresa Vespucci ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents an overview of the risks involved in modern electricity production, delivery and trading, including technical risk in production, transportation and delivery, operational risk for the system operators, market risks for traders, and political and other long term risks in strategic management. Using decision making under uncertainty as a methodological background, the book is ... Read more

    $267.69 CAD

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    Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning

    by Alexander Hübner ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing product variety and striving towards high service levels, the complexity of managing retail business and its operations is growing enormously. Retailers need to match consumer demand with shelf supply ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain

    A history

    by Simon Taylor ...
    The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom.Britain was a pioneer in civil nuclear power and there were once high hopes in the 1950s that this could be a source of cheap electricity and a valuable export opportunity. In The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain, Simon Taylor examines why these hopes were never realised, and how we have come to see a ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Real and Convex Analysis

    by Robert J Vanderbei, Erhan Çınlar ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book offers a first course in analysis for scientists and engineers. It can be used at the advanced undergraduate level or as part of the curriculum in a graduate program. The book is built around metric spaces. In the first three chapters, the authors lay the foundational material and cover the all-important “four-C’s”: convergence, completeness, compactness, and continuity. In subsequent ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Computational Management Science

    State of the Art 2014

    Edited by Raquel J. Fonseca, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, João Telhada ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume contains contributions from the 11th International Conference on Management Science (CMS 2014), held at Lisbon, Portugal, on May 29-31, 2014. Its contents reflect the wide scope of Management Science, covering different theoretical aspects for a quite diverse set of applications. Computational Management Science provides a unique perspective in relevant decision-making processes by ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Performance Models and Risk Management in Communications Systems

    Edited by Peter G. Harrison, Berc Rustem, Nalân Gülpınar ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume covers recent developments in the design, operation, and management of telecommunication and computer network systems in performance engineering and addresses issues of uncertainty, robustness, and risk. Uncertainty regarding loading and system parameters leads to challenging optimization and robustness issues. Stochastic modeling combined with optimization theory ensures the optimum ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Drilling Down

    The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

    by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems

    In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

    Edited by Daniel Hernández-Hernández, J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments. These topics include various aspects of dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and infinite-dimensional linear programming. In all, the work comprises 18 ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics

    Edited by Elke Moser, Willi Semmler, Gernot Tragler, Vladimir M. Veliov ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book presents new developments in the dynamic modeling and optimization methods in environmental economics and provides a huge range of applications dealing with the economics of natural resources, the impacts of climate change and of environmental pollution, and respective policy measures. The interrelationship between economic activities and environmental quality, the development of cleaner ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Multiple Criteria Decision Making by Multiobjective Optimization

    A Toolbox

    by Ignacy Kaliszewski, Janusz Miroforidis, Dmitry Podkopaev ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This textbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective. By using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, it avoids the limits and oversimplifications that can come with optimization models with one criterion. The book is presented in a concise form, addressing how to solve decision problems in sequences of intelligence, modelling, choice and review ... Read more

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  • Smart Cities Atlas

    Western and Eastern Intelligent Communities

    Edited by Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino, Valentina Vaccaro ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book discusses the concept of the smart city, and is based on a multi-service and multi-sectoral approach to urban planning, including various urban functions and the human capital of cities. The work is divided into three parts. The first is an introductory section which covers definitions, policies and tools used at European level for the development and classification of a smart city. The ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD