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Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1A

1st Edition
December 3, 2015
Simon P. Anderson + 2 more
English
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Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

Optimization Tools for Logistics

1st Edition
October 20, 2015
Jean-Michel Réveillac
English
Hardback
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Optimization Tools for Logistics covers the theory and practice of the main principles of operational research and the ways it can be applied to logistics and decision support with regards to common software. The book is supported by worked problems and examples from industrial case studies, providing a comprehensive tool for readers from a variety of industries.

Big Data

1st Edition
October 28, 2014
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger + 1 more
Portuguese

Este livro apresenta uma análise reveladora da maior tendência na tecnologia e do drástico impacto que ela terá sobre a economia, a ciência e a sociedade como um todo.Big data se refere à nossa recém-descoberta capacidade de reunir grandes quantidades de informações, analisá-las num instante e chegar a incríveis conclusões. Essa abordagem pode traduzir vários fenômenos – do preço das passagens aéreas ao texto de milhões de livros – numa forma pesquisável, e usa nosso crescente poder computacional para descobrir epifanias que nunca teríamos observado. Uma revolução semelhante à Internet e talvez até mesmo à imprensa, o big data mudará a maneira como pensamos sobre os negócios, a saúde, a política, a educação e a inovação nos anos vindouros. Ele também gera novas ameaças, do fim da privacidade como a conhecemos à ideia de sermos penalizados pelo que ainda não fizemos, com base na capacidade que o big data tem de prever nosso comportamento futuro.

Fundamentos de Sistemas de Informação

1st Edition
October 28, 2014
Edmir Prado + 1 more
Portuguese

O livro trata do tema de Sistemas de Informação sob o ponto de vista de suas aplicações nas organizações e seus impactos na sociedade, como sistemas sócio-técnicos emergentes da interação entre tecnologia de informação, pessoas e processos organizacionais. Dessa forma, busca conciliar uma visão técnica com uma visão gerencial, por meio de uma abordagem que trata simultaneamente de elementos técnicos, sociais e organizacionais relacionados a Sistemas de Informação. O conteúdo é voltado para cursos de Sistemas de Informação, Ciências da Computação e Administração. Os professores, Edmir Prado (da área de Sistemas de Informação) e Cesar Souza (da Administração), ambos da USP, e mais 10 colaboradores de universidades de vários lugares do Brasil, formam um grupo de pesquisa voltado para a área de Sistemas de Informação. A evolução desse grupo de pesquisa e sua atuação nos últimos anos motivou a criação do livro.

Models and Methods in Multiple Criteria Decision Making

1st Edition
Volume 23
June 28, 2014
G. Colson + 1 more
English
eBook
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This volume is devoted to models and methods in multiple objectives decision making. The importance of the multiple dimensions of decision making was first recognised during the 1960s and since then progress has been made in that theoretical or application oriented contributions may now be categorized under two main headings:- Multiattribute Decision Making (MADM) which concerns the sorting, the ranking or the evaluation of objects of choice according to several criteria and Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) which deals with the vector optimization in mathematical programming. The above are also presented in the context of various applications, namely banking, environment, health, manpower, media, portfolio and traffic control, resulting in a book for a wide variety of readers.

Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming

1st Edition
June 28, 2014
C. Romero
English
eBook
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Goal Programming (GP) is perhaps the oldest and most widely used approach within the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm. GP combines the logic of optimisation in mathematical programming with the decision maker's desire to satisfy several goals. The primary purpose of this book is to identify the critical issues in GP and to demonstrate different procedures capable of avoiding or mitigating the inherent pitfalls associated with these issues. The outcome of a search of the literature shows many instances where GP models produced misleading or even erroneous results simply because of a careless formulation of the problem. Rather than being in itself a textbook, Critical Issues in Goal Programming is designed to complement existing textbooks. It will be useful to students and researchers with a basic knowledge of GP as well as to those interested in building GP models which analyse real decision problems.

A History of Econometrics

1st Edition
Volume 165
June 28, 2014
R.J. Epstein
English
eBook
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This comparative historical study of econometrics focuses on the development of econometric methods and their application to macroeconomics.The analysis covers the origins of modern econometrics in the USA and Europe during the 1920's and 30's, the rise of `structural estimation' in the 1940's and 50's as the dominant research paradigm, and the crisis of the large macroeconomic models in the 1970's and 80's.The completely original feature of this work is the use of previously unknown manuscript material from the archives of the Cowles Commission and other collections. The history so constructed shows that recent debates over methodology are incomplete without understanding the many deep criticisms that were first raised by the earliest researchers in the field.

Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in their Interfaces

1st Edition
May 23, 2014
Osman Balci
English
eBook
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The interface of Operation Research and Computer Science - although elusive to a precise definition - has been a fertile area of both methodological and applied research. The papers in this book, written by experts in their respective fields, convey the current state-of-the-art in this interface across a broad spectrum of research domains which include optimization techniques, linear programming, interior point algorithms, networks, computer graphics in operations research, parallel algorithms and implementations, planning and scheduling, genetic algorithms, heuristic search techniques and data retrieval.

Pesquisa Operacional Para Cursos de Engenharia

1st Edition
May 24, 2013
Patrícia Belfiore + 1 more
Portuguese

Pesquisa Operacional para Cursos de Engenharia destina-se ao leitor que tem como principal objetivo a otimização de recursos em diversos segmentos industriais e comerciais e que, portanto, sentem a necessidade de tratamento e análise de dados com vistas à geração de informações e ao aprimoramento do conhecimento por meio da tomada de decisão.O livro surgiu da evidente necessidade de pesquisadores e engenheiros em utilizar ferramentas de Pesquisa Operacional que fornecem maior embasamento, decorrente de modelos que levam em consideração uma grande possibilidade de soluções e, assim, propiciam uma melhora considerável da qualidade da decisão tomada, principalmente em ambientes que sofrem diversos tipos de restrição.De maneira geral, são abordados os modelos de programação linear, de programação em redes, de programação binária e inteira, de programação não linear e de programação dinâmica. Em cada capítulo, são também realizadas aplicações em Excel, a partir de exemplos reais das engenharias, e apresentadas listas de exercícios práticos.

The Linear Complementarity Problem

1st Edition
May 23, 2013
Richard W. Cottle + 2 more
English

During the past twenty years, the linear complementarity problem has emerged as an important development in mathematical programming and numerical linear algebra. The Linear Complementarity Problem is a text designed to be suitable for both classroom use and as a references for researchers. The book is ideal for graduate students pursuing an advanced degree in operations research, but it is also of importance for many related fields of study, such as: computer science, applied mathematics, engineering, business studies, etc.