Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...

Introduction: Motivation and Research Setting -- Foundations: Conceptual Background -- Study 1: Supporting Participants in Creative Processes with Persuasive Technology -- Study 2: Categorizing Persuasive Technology for Participatory Design -- Study 3: Modelling and Creating Persuasive...

Part I: Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Portfolio Optimization -- 1. Utility: Theories and Models -- 2. Portfolio Optimization -- 3. Behavioral Portfolio Theory -- 4. A Comparative Study on PSO with Other Metaheuristic Methods -- 5. Mathematical Model of Particle Swarm Optimization:...

This book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students. The book begins by exploring a linear programming problem with random parameters, representing a decision problem under uncertainty. Several models for this problem are presented,...

Chapter 1. Omni-channel operations: Challenges, opportunities, and models -- Chapter 2. New Functions of Physical Stores in the Age of Omnichannel Retailing -- Chapter 3. Omni-Channel Assortment Planning -- Chapter 4. Returns Policies and Smart Salvaging: Benefiting From a Multi-Channel World --...

Chapter 1. My Career and Contributions -- Chapter 2. Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm -- Chapter 3. A general framework for local search applied to the continuous p-median problem -- Chapter 4. Big Triangle Small Triangle Method for the Weber Problem on the Sphere -- Chapter 5. Integer...

Chapter 1. Basic concept of epidemic-logistics -- Chapter 2. Epidemic dynamics modeling and analysis -- Chapter 3. Mixed distribution mode for emergency resources in anti-bioterrorism system -- Chapter 4. Epidemic logistics with demand information updating Model I: Medical resource is enough --...

Chapter 1. Critical decisions -- Chapter 2. The Law of Unintended Consequences (LUC) -- Chapter 3. Psychology of Critical Decision-Making -- Chapter 4. Rational Decision-Making -- Chapter 5. Defending Your Critical Decisions…Against You -- Chapter 6. BI, Analytics, and Their Discontents --...

Chapter 1. History of Crude Oil Refining -- Chapter 2. Operations Inside a Crude Oil Refinery -- Chapter 3. How Much Crude Oil Should an Oil Exporting Country Produce Annually for Export?- Chapter 4. Clustering Problems in Offshore Drilling of Crude Oil Wells -- Chapter 5. A Product Mix...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Rescheduling on identical parallel machines in the presence of machine breakdowns -- Chapter 3 Parallel-machine rescheduling with job rejection in the presence of job unavailability -- Chapter 4 Rescheduling with controllable processing times and job rejection...