Turning the page -- On the use of dynamic models in economics -- What to do with uncertainties? -- Optimization in age-structured dynamic economic models -- A vindication of open-loop equilibria in differential games -- A linear state game of advertising à la Vidale-Wolfe -- The cost of myopia...

Analyzing Global Energy Patterns: Clustering Countries and Predicting Trends Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals -- Access to Energy Finance: Development of Renewable Energy in Bangladesh -- Explainable AI in Energy Forecasting: Understanding Natural Gas Consumption through...

Alignment, Rewards and Public Benefit -- The Evolution of University Industry Relationships for Driving Innovation -- Organization and Strategy for University-Industry Relationships -- Connecting, Exploring, Uncovering and Building Relationships -- Metrics, Incentives, Rewards and Culture for...

Green Driving: Harnessing Machine Learning to Predict Vehicle Carbon Footprints and Interpreting Results with Explainable AI -- A Comparative Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks for Electricity Price Forecasting -- Energy Forecasting Utilizing CNN-LSTM Attention Mechanism: Empirical Evidence from...

Outsourcing and Domestic Cleaning Services: Insights from Clients and Domestic Workers in South Africa -- Outsourcing and Time-related Dimensions of Job Quality: Evidence from the Facility Management Business -- Ensuring Circularity through Outsourcing Decisions in Solar Photovoltaic Supply...

Introduction -- Primer of convex analysis -- Variational analysis -- Linear and nonlinear optimization problems -- Probability and Statistics -- Fundamental modeling questions in stochastic programming -- Adjusting to uncertainty: modeling recourse -- Probability constraints -- Proximal point...

Ripple Effect in the Supply Chain: Definitions, Frameworks and Future Research Perspectives -- A Multi-portfolio Approach to Integrated Risk-Averse Planning in Supply Chains Under Disruption Risks -- The rippling effect of supply chains as complex adaptive non-linear systems -- Bullwhip Effect...

This book offers an up-to-date description of relaxation/approximation and decomposition techniques, demonstrating how their combined use efficiently solves large-scale optimization problems relevant to engineering, particularly in electrical, and industrial engineering, with a focus on energy....

Benchmarking -- An introduction to data envelopment analysis -- Probability Theory -- Stochastic data envelopment analysis -- Stochastic Network Data Envelopment Analysis -- Stochastic scale elasticity -- Managerial Ability in Deterministic and Stochastic Environments.

Revolutionising Facilities Management Outsourcing: AI Applications and Case Studies in Sustainable Outsourcing Relationships -- Outsourcing Fundamentals: The Supply Chain Analysis of Manufacturing Outsourcing Relationship -- Do the different forms of outsourcing affect the management of safety?...