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  • Two-Person Zero-Sum Games

    by Alan Washburn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Two-person zero-sum game theory deals with situations that are perfectly competitive—there are exactly two decision makers for whom there is no possibility of cooperation or compromise. It is the most fundamental part of game theory, and the part most commonly applied. There are diverse applications to military battles, sports, parlor games, economics and politics. The theory was born in World War ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Combat Modeling

    by Moshe Kress, Alan Washburn ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    "Combat Modeling" is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat. After a brief overview, authors Washburn and Kress present individual chapters on shooting without feedback; shooting with feedback; target defense; attrition models; game theory and wargames; search; unmanned aerial vehicles; and terror and insurgency. Three appendices provide a review ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Optimal Search for Moving Targets

    by Lawrence D. Stone, Johannes O. Royset, Alan R. Washburn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target. It then develops the theory of optimal search for a moving target, providing algorithms for computing optimal plans and examples of their use. Next it develops methods for computing optimal search plans involving multiple targets and multiple searchers with realistic operational constraints on search ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

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    by Theodore T. Allen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Discrete event simulation and agent-based modeling are increasingly recognized as critical for diagnosing and solving process issues in complex systems. Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-based Modeling covers the techniques needed for success in all phases of simulation projects. These include: • Definition – The reader will learn how to plan a project and communicate using a ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Essentials of Stochastic Processes

    by Richard Durrett ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is for a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduates or master’s students who have had a course in probability theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, martingales, and mathematical finance. One can only learn a subject by seeing it in action, so there are a large number of examples and more than 300 carefully ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • World Class Manufacturing

    by Richard J. Schonberger ...
    In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation of the simple techniques that fueled Japan's industrial success, he demonstrated how the same ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Scheduling

    Theory, Algorithms, and Systems

    by Michael L. Pinedo ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This new edition provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world. It again includes supplementary material in the form of slide-shows from industry and movies that show implementations of scheduling systems.The main structure of the book as per previous edition consists of three ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Computational Finance

    An Introductory Course with R

    by Argimiro Arratia ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book covers a wide range of topics, yet essential, in Computational Finance (CF), understood as a mix of Finance, Computational Statistics, and Mathematics of Finance. In that regard it is unique in its kind, for it touches upon the basic principles of all three main components of CF, with hands-on examples for programming models in R. Thus, the first chapter gives an introduction to the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Excel Data Analysis

    Modeling and Simulation

    by Hector Guerrero ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Why does the World Need—Excel Data Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation? When spreadsheets ?rst became widely available in the early 1980s, it spawned a revolution in teaching. What previously could only be done with arcane software and large scale computing was now available to the common-man, on a desktop. Also, before spreadsheets, most substantial analytical work was done outside the classroom ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Probability Models

    by John Haigh ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to provide a sound introduction to the study of real-world phenomena that possess random variation. It describes how to set up and analyse models of real-life phenomena that involve elements of chance. Motivation comes from everyday experiences of probability, such as that of a dice or cards, the idea of fairness in games of chance, and the random ways in which, say, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management

    International Conference, MS 2016, Teruel, Spain, July 4-5, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Jose M. Moneva, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, Raúl León ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and the University of Zaragoza through the GESES Research Group, with the support of the SoGReS-MF Research Group from University Jaume I. This edition of the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Breakthrough Marketing Plans

    How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth

    by Tim Calkins ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Almost every company creates a marketing plan each year, and many spend hundreds of employee hours researching, preparing and presenting their tomes to senior executives. But most marketing plans are a waste of time; they are too long, too complicated and too dense. They end up sitting on a shelf, unread and unrealized. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is an essential tool for people who create ... Read more

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