The scope of this volume centers on advancements in the state of art and the state of the practice in computer-aided systems in public transport. Yet, this volume illustrates a greater breadth of subjects in this area. The common theme remains the use of computer-aided methods and operations...

" This book contains selected papers from the symposium ""Operations Research 2010"" which was held from September 1-3, 2010 at the ""Universität der Bundeswehr München"", Germany. The international conference, which also serves as the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society...

This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

Multi-Objective Stochastic Programming Approaches for Supply Chain Management -- A Review of Goal Programming for Portfolio Selection -- A Hypervolume-Based Optimizer for High-Dimensional Objective Spaces -- Minimizing Vector Risk Measures -- Multicriteria Programming Approach to Development...

Der vierte Band der jährlichen Buchreihe präsentiert die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte in den Forschungsfeldern Einkauf, Materialwirtschaft, Logistik und Supply Chain Management. Streng wissenschaftliche sowie anwendungsnahe Beiträge geben Impulse für Forschung und Praxis und fördern den...

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization’s efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency, its essence and the principles of its measurement....

On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the...

Though the emerging sub-discipline of comparative political economy is now rich in studies of different advanced capitalisms, it still lacks a systematic consideration of the organizing frameworks and methodologies underpinning those studies. This definitive volume outlines the two great debates...