Deregulation and Markets in the Electricity Industry -- Decision Making and Uncertainties in the Electricity Industry -- Modelling Electricity Prices -- Modeling Competition in the Electricity Industry -- Optimizing Generation and Trading Portfolios -- Risk Management and Risk Controlling -- Technology Assessment -- Investment Decisions -- Final Remarks.Around the world, liberalization and priv…
Facility-Location Models -- Measuring Spatial Separation: Distance, Time, Routing, and Accessibility -- Simultaneous Location-and-Routing Models -- Including Generation, Competition and Distribution in Location Allocation -- Activity Allocation and Derivation: Evolution of the Lowry-Based Land-Use Models -- Chaos, Catastrophe, Bifurcation and Disaggregation in Locational Models -- Spatial Equil…
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Management from Awareness to Practice -- Quantitative Area Risk Analysis: Available Tools and Open Problems -- ARIPAR-GIS, TRAT, OPTIPATH, EHHRA-GIS -- Risk Based Decision Making: Three Examples of Practical Application Tools -- Catastrophe Risk Management -- Interactive Risk Management -- Pilot Project on Environment and Health Rapid Risk Assessment in Secondary…
What is changing?- Does progress matter? -- Being successful in disruptive environments -- What is it that the successful really do? -- Can you learn disruptive Innovation? -- Go with the flow - the courage to take the plunge -- Practical aspects of creating an Innovation Cell -- Can I manage change and stability side by side? -- Why one room? -- Why autonomy? -- What do I gain? - Path of Innov…
This book is devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in fuzzy system engineering. Given the maturation of fuzzy logic, this book is dedicated to exploring the recent breakthroughs in fuzziness and soft computing in favour of intelligent system engineering. This monograph presents novel developments of the fuzzy theory as well as interesting applications of the fuzzy logic explo…
Fuzzy Logic -- Knowledge and Fuzzy Control -- Control of the Service Activities -- Control of the Queue Discipline -- Control of the Admission of Customers -- Coordinating Multiple Control Policies -- Applications of Fuzzy Queuing Control to the Internet -- Closure.Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested a…
Manufacturing E-Marketplaces: Innovative Tools for the Extended Enterprise -- An Agent Based Architecture for Manufacturing E-Marketplaces -- Process Planning in Manufacturing E-Marketplaces -- Manufacturability Models for Manufacturing E-Marketplaces -- Negotiation Models in Manufacturing E-Marketplaces -- Production Planning in E-marketplaces -- Implementation, Numerical Examples and Tests --…
to closed-loop supply chains -- Production closed-loop supply chains -- Reverse logistics in a pharmaceutical company: the Schering case -- Reverse logistics in an electronics company: the NEC-Cl case -- Distribution closed-loop supply chains -- The chip in crate: the Heineken case -- Recovery and reuse of maritime containers: the Blue Container Line case -- Empty container reposition: the port…
The Network of Logistics Decisions -- Facility Location in Supply Chain Design -- Distribution Centres in Supply Chain Operations -- Operational Research Methods for Efficient Warehousing -- Models and Methods for Facilities Layout Design from an Applicability to Real-World Perspective -- The Design, Planning, and Optimization of Reverse Logistics Networks -- Models and Methods for Operations i…
The Use of Succinct Models and Data Summaries -- Cost -- Optimization Methods: One-to-One Distribution -- One-to-Many Distribution -- One-To-Many Distribution with Transshipments -- Many-To-Many Distribution.This expanded edition of ALogistics Systems Analysis@ includes new - search results and numerous modifications to enhance comprehensiveness and clarity. It has two new sections, a new appen…