In present days more and more academics and practitioners are seeking to understand how organizations manage their knowledge and intellectual capital in order to obtain more effective competitive advantages. Taking into account these issues, and in order to answer the concerns expressed by these...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Brief biographical sketches of editors -- 1. Organizational culture: forces that shape thinking, behavior, and success -- 2. Corporate social responsibility reporting and sustainability -- 3. Project management -- 4. Consumer behavior: the importance of...

"This book contains the latest research developments in manufacturing technology and its optimization, and demonstrates the fundamentals of new computational approaches and the range of their potential application"--Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1 Application of the Laplace transform in problems of studying -- the dynamic properties of a material system and in engineering -- technologies -- -- Lubov Mironova and Leonid Kondratenko -- -- Chapter 2 Fourier series and its applications in engineering -- -- Smita Sonker and Alka...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Authors; Section I: Introduction to Heuristic Optimization; Chapter 1 Optimization Using Heuristic Search: An Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Optimization Problem; 1.2.1 Local Versus Global Optima; 1.3 Categorization of...