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Our Business, Management, and Accounting titles are essential reading for students and professionals, and cover a range of foundational and advanced topics across actuarial science, quantitative assets management and investment modelling, business venturing, business law, and human resource management, among other topics

  • Encyclopedia in Operations Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Tsan-Ming Jason Choi
    • English
    Encyclopedia of Operations Management offers a comprehensive and authoritative exploration of the field of operations management. Recognizing the evolving nature of this field, this encyclopedia incorporates the latest trends, emerging technologies, and industry practices. It addresses topics such as Industry 4.0, digital transformation, sustainability, agile methodologies, and data analytics, ensuring that readers are equipped with up-to-date knowledge. Designed to cater to both students and professionals, this encyclopedia provides a wide range of knowledge, insights, and best practices for optimizing operations within diverse industries and organizations.Reader... will also find numerous case studies and examples drawn from a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, services, healthcare, logistics, and e-commerce. These real-world illustrations enable readers to grasp the practical implications of various operations management concepts and techniques.

  • Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions

    • 2nd Edition
    • John Hill
    • English
    Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions, Second Edition explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of Fintech, this book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations, and social considerations. The second edition expands and updates topics covered in the first edition, with particular emphasis on current and expected impact of AI; maturation of crypto and consequent regulatory issues; international developments; and the continued integration of technology advances in large financial institutions. This book shows how Fintech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation, and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts.

  • Encyclopedia of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets and Banking

    • 1st Edition
    • Nicholas Apergis
    • English
    Encyclopedia of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets and Banking, Three Volume Set presents expert commentary from professionals around the globe who analyze and forecast topics surrounding monetary policy and financial markets. As the go-to reference for the field, sections cover The Future of Monetary Policy and how leading advanced economies have undergone several fundamental transformative changes, Climate Change and Sustainability and how its impacts exert additional pressure on natural resources, Financial Markets and new frameworks for looking at financial system design, and Banking Developments, including ongoing changes in global banking influence.

  • Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Sanjoy Kumar Paul + 1 more
    • English
    Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management presents state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques and applications for supply chain sustainability issues and logistic problems, filling the gap between general textbooks on sustainable supply chain management and more specialized literature dealing with methods for computational intelligence techniques. This book focuses on addressing problems in advanced topics in the sustainable supply chain and will appeal to practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and professionals interested in sustainable logistics, procurement, manufacturing, inventory and production management, scheduling, transportation, and supply chain network design.

  • Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems

    Risks and Opportunities in Current Technological Trends
    • 1st Edition
    • Santi CaballĂ© + 2 more
    • English
    Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems: Risks and Opportunities in Current Technological Trends creates a space to explore the ethical relevance that new technologies under development may have. Stimulating reflection and considerations with respect to the design, deployment, and use of technology helps readers guide current and future technological advancements from an ethically informed position to ensure that such advancements contribute towards solving current global and social challenges that we, as a society, have today. This will not only be useful for researchers and professional engineers, but also for educators, policy makers, and ethicists.Recent technological advancements have deeply transformed society and the way people interact with each other. Instantaneous communication platforms have allowed connections with other people, forming global communities and creating unprecedented opportunities in many sectors, making access to online resources more ubiquitous by reducing limitations imposed by geographical distance and temporal constrains. These technological developments bear ethically relevant consequences with their deployment, and legislations often lag behind such advancements. Because the appearance and deployment of these technologies happen much faster than legislative procedures, the way these technologies affect social interactions have profound ethical effects before any legislative regulation can be built in order to prevent and mitigate those effects.

  • Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

    • 1st Edition
    • Bedir Tekinerdogan + 4 more
    • English
    Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures focuses on two important aspects of CIS, management and engineering. The book provides an ontological foundation for the models and methods needed to design a set of systems, networks and assets that are essential for a society's functioning, and for ensuring the security, safety and economy of a nation. Various examples in agriculture, the water supply, public health, transportation, security services, electricity generation, telecommunication, and financial services can be used to substantiate dangers. Disruptions of CIS can have serious cascading consequences that would stop society from functioning properly and result in loss of life.Malicious software (a.k.a., malware), for example, can disrupt the distribution of electricity across a region, which in turn can lead to the forced shutdown of communication, health and financial sectors. Subsequently, proper engineering and management are important to anticipate possible risks and threats and provide resilient CIS. Although the problem of CIS has been broadly acknowledged and discussed, to date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques and tools exist for such CIS.

  • Handbook of Metaheuristic Algorithms

    From Fundamental Theories to Advanced Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Chun-Wei Tsai + 1 more
    • English
    Handbook of Metaheuristic Algorithms: From Fundamental Theories to Advanced Applications provides a brief introduction to metaheuristic algorithms from the ground up, including basic ideas and advanced solutions. Although readers may be able to find source code for some metaheuristic algorithms on the Internet, the coding styles and explanations are generally quite different, and thus requiring expanded knowledge between theory and implementation. This book can also help students and researchers construct an integrated perspective of metaheuristic and unsupervised algorithms for artificial intelligence research in computer science and applied engineering domains. Metaheuristic algorithms can be considered the epitome of unsupervised learning algorithms for the optimization of engineering and artificial intelligence problems, including simulated annealing (SA), tabu search (TS), genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO), particle swarm optimization (PSO), differential evolution (DE), and others. Distinct from most supervised learning algorithms that need labeled data to learn and construct determination models, metaheuristic algorithms inherit characteristics of unsupervised learning algorithms used for solving complex engineering optimization problems without labeled data, just like self-learning, to find solutions to complex problems.

  • Project Finance in Theory and Practice

    Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects
    • 4th Edition
    • Stefano Gatti
    • English
    Project Finance in Theory and Practice: Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects, Fourth Edition provides essential, core coverage of project finance, offering new insights into Sharia-compliant instruments and a comprehensive overview of the current state of international regulation of banking post financial crisis. This updated edition includes new case studies and topics related to country risk, along with insights from project finance experts who share their specialized knowledge on legal issues and the role of advisors in project finance details. The book will be useful for readers at all levels of education and experience who want to learn how to succeed in project finance.

  • Records Management at the Heart of Business Processes

    Validate, Protect, Operate and Maintain the Information in the Digital Environment
    • 1st Edition
    • Florence Ott
    • English
    In the current digital environment, records and information management allows to face outstanding volumes of information, widespread dematerialization of business processes and the proliferation of legal and regulatory obligations. This book offers principles, standards, procedures and best practices for the creation of authoritative records and for long-term conservation purposes.

  • Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID

    Practical Applications and Approaches to Challenge and Change
    • 1st Edition
    • David Baker + 1 more
    • English
    COVID-19 is profoundly affecting the ways in which we live, learn, plan, and develop. What does COVID-19 mean for the future of digital information use and delivery, and for more traditional forms of library provision? Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID gives immediate and long-term solutions for librarians responding to the challenge of COVID-19. The book helps library leaders prepare for a post-COVID-19 world, giving guidance on developing sustainable solutions. The need for sustainable digital access has now become acute, and while offering a physical space will remain important, current events are likely to trigger a shift toward off-site working and study, making online access to information more crucial. Libraries have already been providing access to digital information as a premium service. New forms and use of materials all serve to eliminate the need for direct contact in a physical space. Such spaces will come to be predicated on evolving systems of digital information, as critical needs are met by remote delivery of goods and services. Intensified financial pressure will also shape the future, with a reassessment of information and its commercial value. In response, there will be a massification of provision through increased cooperation and collaboration. These significant transitions are driving professionals to rethink and question their identities, values, and purpose. This book responds to these issues by examining the practicalities of running a library during and after the pandemic, answering questions such as: What do we know so far? How are institutions coping? Where are providers placing themselves on the digital/print and the remote/face-to-face continuums? This edited volume gives analysis and examples from around the globe on how libraries are managing to deliver access and services during COVID-19. This practical and thoughtful book provides a framework within which library directors and their staff can plan sustainable services and collections for an uncertain future.

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