How to Make a Decision -- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Architectural Design -- Why is the Principal Eigenvector Necessary? -- Designing a Mousetrap -- Designing the Best Catamaran -- The Selection of a Bridge -- Measuring Dependence Between Activities: Input Output...

Illustrative Graphs -- Intriguing Properties -- Markov Chains -- Markov Decision Processes -- Determinants -- Traces -- Linear Programming Based Algorithms -- Interior Point and Cross-Entropy Algorithms -- Self-similar Structure and Hamiltonicity -- Graph Enumeration

Workforce Management based on forecasted demand -- Operating rooms scheduling under uncertainty -- Idealised design and modelling of alternatives to hospital care -- A coordination model for enhancing research on rare diseases -- Integrating simulation and risk-based sensitivity analysis methods...

Introduction -- City Logistics -- Attended Home Delivery -- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- Analysis of Floating Car Data -- Provision of Distance Matrices -- Evaluation of Information Models -- Routing in City Logistics -- Evaluation of Optimization Models -- Conclusions and Outlook

Mean-Risk Analysis: An Introduction -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Single-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Multi-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Supply Chain Coordination Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis: Conclusion, Future Research and Extensions

Introduction -- By the Numbers: A Visual Chronicle of GHG Emmissions -- Sustainable Supply Chains for Bio-Based Fuels and Chemicals -- Organizing for Sustainability: Exploratory Analysis of the Healthcare Industry -- Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System -- From a...

The Multi-Product Newsvendor Problem: Review Extensions, and Directions for Future Research -- A Multi-Product Risk: Adverse Newsvendor with Law Invariant Coherant Measure of Risk -- A Copula Approach to Inventory Pooling Problems with Newsvendor Products -- Repeated Newsvendor Game with...

"Includes detailed modelling-based approaches to mitigate supply chain risk, drawing on the supply chain literature. Presents broad mitigation approaches in practice to highlight concepts,drawing on industry examples and cases." -- Publisher's website