In this chapter, inventory and sales data from a small business with seven showrooms are evaluated to forecast future sales and maximize total profits. In each showroom, three major brands of ceiling fans are sold and a limited amount of products from each brand are displayed. Each showroom...

We always come cross several decision-making problems in our daily life. Such problems are always conflicting in which many different view points should be satisfied. In politics, business, industrial systems, management science, networks, etc. one often encounters such kind of problems. The...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Production Function -- 3 Optimisation with One Input -- 4 Production and Optimisation with Two or More Inputs -- 5 Costs -- 6 Productivity, Efficiency and Technological Changes -- 7 Input Demand Functions -- 8 Land and Other Inputs -- 9 The Company's Supply Function -- 10...

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

This study proposes a theoretical model for measuring the greenness factors of a firm. We develop the multifactor utility function and find that the proportion of investment in green bonds is higher if greenness factors account for by a firm and vice versa. Moreover, we further develop the...