2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Stochastic geometry, based on current developments in geometry, probability and measure theory, makes possible modeling of two- and three-dimensional random objects with interactions as they appear in the microstructure of materials, biological tissues, macroscopically in ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Optimization Theory is becoming a more and more important mathematical as well as interdisciplinary area, especially in the interplay between mathematics and many other sciences like computer science, physics, engineering, operations research, etc. This volume ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

This book contains the lectures given at the Second Conference on Dynamics and Randomness held at the Centro de Modelamiento Matemático of the Universidad de Chile, from December 9-13, 2003. This meeting brought together mathematicians, ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Today's interface between retailers and consumers is highly dynamic. Problems and opportunities like increased product complexity, rapidly changing consumer expectations, and the introduction of new technologies point to the need for explaining and understanding at ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe analyses the role of international industrial networks in industrial restructuring and corporate growth in central Europe, Russia and Ukraine. It shows that two distinct ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Two crucial aspects of economic reality are uncertainty and dynamics. In this book, new models and techniques are developed to analyse economic dynamics in an uncertain environment. In the first part, investment decisions of firms ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Markov chains have increasingly become useful way of capturing stochastic nature of many economic and financial variables. Although the hidden Markov processes have been widely employed for some time in many engineering applications e.g. speech ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness addresses the topic of IT innovations that can further an organization's ability to adapt and be competitive. Thus we address the problem at an earlier starting point, that is, ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Over the past two decades, not only has supply chain analysis become a strategic focus of leading firms, it has also spawned an impressive array of research that brings together diverse research communities. Adding to ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Apart from standard actuarial theory, "Modern Actuarial Risk Theory" contains methods that are relevant for actuarial practice, for instance the rating of automobile insurance policies, premium principles and IBNR models, as well as generalized linear ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

The introduction of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects concerns and confuses the transportation planners, policy-makers, and professionals who seek to evaluate them. Until recently, most assessments have considered the various new technologies from an engineering ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Revenue management (RM) is one of the most successful applications in Operations Research. The RM has grown from its application with a handful of major airlines to its status today as a mainstream business practice ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Unlike a traditional textbook, this book deals completely with Case Studies and Projects. The Case Studies and Projects involve Mathematical and Computational Methods from the three key areas of ODEs, PDEs and Optimization. The leading ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

This volume presents the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and their Applications, held in June 2002 in Flagstaff, Arizona. It contains research papers on the Fibonacci Numbers and their generalizations. All ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Cross-Border Investing: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe offers a view that reflects two main hypotheses: You cannot understand foreign direct investment (FDI) trends and developments unless you understand the company's motives to invest,You ...

2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities ...