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Hybrid Adaptive Robust Optimization Models
This chapter provides a detailed description of Adaptive Robust Optimization (ARO) models that involve uncertainties of different nature,...
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A Machine Learning Framework for Enhancing Security of Transaction in Saudi Banks Based on User Behavior
Nowadays, with most of the world operating remotely, online banking is very popular in Saudi Arabia. However, fraudsters often set up fake websites...
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Decision Making Under Uncertainty in the Power Sector
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the main approaches available to address optimization problems under uncertainty, namely,...
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RONSI: a framework for calculating return on network security investment
This competitive environment is rapidly driving technological modernization. Sophisticated cyber security attacks are expanding exponentially,...
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How life context affects entrepreneurs' passion and performance
This article examines the influence of the life context on entrepreneurial passion (EP) and performance. Drawing on the person–environment fit...
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Development of a framework for adopting Industry 4.0 integrated sustainable supply chain practices: ISM–MICMAC approach
Sustainable supply chain (SSC) practices are identified as the key solutions to deal with the rise in environmental issues, institutional pressures...
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Scheduling recurring radiotherapy appointments in an ion beam facility
Ion beam radiotherapy is a modern form of cancer treatment that is offered in specialized facilities. Treatment consists of multiple, almost daily...
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Optimal Financial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
We use a fairly general framework to analyze a rich variety of financial optimization models presented in the literature, with emphasis on...
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CASE 15: SOLARIS Bus and Coach: A Bus Tour to Global Markets
As the ten-year association period came to an end in the beginning of a new century, Polish entrepreneurs were getting ready for Poland’s full...
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Working with the Media in China
We spend a great deal of time looking at other publics in this book, but your most important influencers — the public that has the most regular...
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Stability with file arrivals and departures in multichannel cellular wireless networks
This paper studies scheduling in multichannel wireless networks with flow-level dynamics. We consider a downlink network with a single base station, M ...
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Retail in Poland − New Challenges and New Strategies
From the European perspective, the Polish retail market is characterised by the significant presence of foreign retail chains. This phenomenon is...
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Routing optimization over network mobility with distributed home agents as the cross layer consideration
Routing optimization (RO) is an important support for Mobile IPv6 while performing handover. It can reduce the overhead of a home agent and make the...
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The dial-a-ride problem: models and algorithms
The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) consists of designing vehicle routes and schedules for n users who specify pickup and delivery requests between...
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Finding Most Probable Worlds of Probabilistic Logic Programs
Probabilistic logic programs have primarily studied the problem of entailment of probabilistic atoms. However, there are some interesting...
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A New Paradigm for On-Line Management of Communication Networks with Multiplicative Feedback Control
We describe the use of Stochastic Flow Models (SFMs) for control and optimization (rather than performance analysis) of computer networks. After...
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Process Implementation — Process Roll-out
An essential challenge of reorganization, in addition to the design, is the implementation of new structures.228 For a successful implementation, the...
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Applications of Markov Decision Processes in Communication Networks
We present in this chapter a survey on applications of MDPs to communication networks. We survey both the different application areas in...
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The role of organisational structure in successful global brand management: A case study of the Pierre Smirnoff Company
While articles and books have largely focused on the strategic issues around brands and branding, much less attention has been focused on the people...