Advanced Operations Management for Complex Systems Analysis
Advanced Operations Management for Complex Systems Analysis

Author: Jingzheng Ren

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 3030454185

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This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective. It presents various advanced multi-criteria decision analysis methods for investigating factors that influence complex systems. In turn, it shows how to improve systems’ performance, including their competitiveness, safety, and sustainability. The book also draws on examples of typical virtual systems such as tourism, aviation maintenance, and waste-to-wealth systems to illustrate the operations management methods discussed. Cases from day-to-day life are used to elicit heuristic questions on the operations management methods presented in each chapter. The book will help researchers, operations managers, and engineers alike to understand the latest advances in operations management methods for analysing complex systems from the standpoint of system engineering.

Managing Complex Systems
Managing Complex Systems

Author: Howard Eisner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1118006690

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Nine innovative methods to think outside the box and solve complex system problems Managing Complex Systems provides specific tools and guidance needed to be a more creative and innovative thinker. Following the author's methodology, the reader will be better able to devise and implement nontraditional solutions to seemingly intractable complex problems. By challenging the reader to think in new and creative ways, the book offers a road map to success, whether measured in terms of competitive advantage, greater market share, improved productivity, or higher profits, all based upon better solutions to difficult problems. The first four chapters set the foundation for creative thinking by exploring the nature of large-scale systems and complexity, thinking inside and outside the box, and examples of how an inventive mind solves problems in both management and scientific domains. Subsequent chapters address nine focused methods that the author has formulated to help the reader think outside the box: * Broaden and generalize * Crossover * Question conventional wisdom * Back of the envelope * Expanding the dimensions * Obversity * Remove constraints * Thinking with pictures * Systems approach Real-life examples are provided for each method that demonstrate how the approach enhances problem solving and decision making in system development and management. Following the discussion of the nine methods, the author examines group decision making as well as additional creative thinking procedures devised by other researchers, including references that assist in exploring these methods in greater detail. The author ends with a wrap-up chapter that includes a test to help readers practice their tendencies toward creative thinking skills and action with respect to solving real-world problems. The nine methods discussed in this book have broad applicability and can be used successfully by managers with a wide range of responsibilities in business and technology. For anyone who is tired of the same old approach with the same old results, this book is essential reading.

Complex Systems Design & Management
Complex Systems Design & Management

Author: Guy André Boy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9783030348427

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This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the tenth edition of the conference that took place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 12-13, 2019. Mastering complex systems requires an integrated understanding of industrial practices as well as sophisticated theoretical techniques and tools. This explains the creation of an annual go-between forum in Paris dedicated to academic researchers & industrial actors working on complex industrial systems architecture, modeling & engineering. These proceedings cover the most recent trends in the emerging field of Complex Systems, both from an academic and a professional perspective. A special focus is put on “Systems Engineering through the ages”. The CSD&M Paris 2019 conference is organized under the guidance of CESAM Community. It has been developed since 2010 by the non-profit organization CESAMES Association to organize the sharing of good practices in Enterprise and Systems Architecture and to certify the level of knowledge and proficiency in this field through CESAM certification.

Complex Management Systems and the Shingo Model
Complex Management Systems and the Shingo Model

Author: Rick Edgeman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 135185965X

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The Shingo Enterprise Excellence Prize Model (SEEM) has exerted global influence over the ways that exceptional organizations formulate/deploy strategy with its focus on processes, Lean thinking, continuous improvement, innovation, workforce development, and supplier strategies. This book details the SEEM, which lies at the heart of the Shingo Prize. It will link the theoretical underpinnings of the SEEM and their implications for practice. Case studies illustrate important points. Selected tools that support practical implementation of the model are discussed and their use illustrated. This book will deepen understanding of why the model works and how implementation can be accomplished.

Network Management and Control
Network Management and Control

Author: I.T. Frisch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1489912983

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Three speakers at the Second Workshop on Network Management and Control nostalgically remembered the INTEROP Conference at which SNMP was able to interface even to CD players and toasters. We agreed this was indeed a major step forward in standards, but wondered if anyone noticed whether the toast was burned, let alone, would want to eat it. The assurance of the correct operation of practical systems under difficult environments emerged as the dominant theme of the workshop with growth, interoperability, performance, and scalability as the primary sub-themes. Perhaps this thrust is un surprising, since about half the 100 or so attendees were from industry, with a strong contingency of users. Indeed the technical program co-chairs, Shivendra Panwar of Polytechnic and Walter Johnston of NYNEX, took as their assignment the coverage of real problems and opportunities in industry. Nevertheless we take it as a real indication of progress in the field that the community is beginning to take for granted the availability of standards and even the ability to detect physical, link, and network-level faults and is now expecting diagnostics at higher levels as well as system-wide solutions.

Business Management
Business Management

Author: R. C. Agrawal,

Publisher: SBPD Publications

Published: 2024-02-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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1. Management : Concept and Process, 2. Managerial Functions, 3. Co-ordination, 4. Evolution of Management Thought, 5. Management by Objectives : Peter F. Drucker, 6. Planning (Concept, Types and Importance), 7. Types of Plans and Strategic Planning, 8. Environment Analysis and Business Environment, 9. Decisions or Decision Making (Meaning, Concept, Characteristics, Types, Process, Significance, Techniques, Decision and Rationale and Bounded Rationality), 10. Organizing (Meaning, Concept, Nature, Process, Principles and Significance), 11. Span of Control and Centralization and Decentralization of Authority, 12. Authority and Delegation of Authority, 13. Types or Forms of Organizations and Theories, 14. Staffing, 15. Motivation (Concept, Process, Theories and Importance), 16. Leadership (Concept, Theories and Styles), 17. Communication (Meaning, Concept, Nature, Kinds, Interpersonal and Organisational Communication, Effective Communication, One-Way and Two-Way Communication, Process, Networks, Barriers and Improving Communication), 18. Control or Managerial Control (Concept, Nature, Process and Techniques—Traditional and Modern), 19. Techniques of Control and Emerging Issues in Management.

Fuzzy Networks for Complex Systems
Fuzzy Networks for Complex Systems

Author: Alexander Gegov

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3642155995

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This book introduces the novel concept of a fuzzy network whose nodes are rule bases and the connections between the nodes are the interactions between the rule bases in the form of outputs fed as inputs. The concept is presented as a systematic study for improving the feasibility and transparency of fuzzy models by means of modular rule bases whereby the model accuracy and efficiency can be optimised in a flexible way. The study uses an effective approach for fuzzy rule based modelling of complex systems that are characterised by attributes such as nonlinearity, uncertainty, dimensionality and structure.The approach is illustrated by formal models for fuzzy networks, basic and advanced operations on network nodes, properties of operations, feedforward and feedback fuzzy networks as well as evaluation of fuzzy networks. The results are demonstrated by numerous examples, two case studies and software programmes within the Matlab environment that implement some of the theoretical methods from the book. The book shows the novel concept of a fuzzy network with networked rule bases as a bridge between the existing concepts of a standard fuzzy system with a single rule base and a hierarchical fuzzy system with multiple rule bases.

Strategy for Managing Complex Systems
Strategy for Managing Complex Systems

Author: Fredmund Malik

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 3593505398

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"Malik demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in a certain type of cybernetics of truly complex systems, of organismic, self-organizing, and evolving systems. This book provides the basics on how to create robust, functional, and sustainably viable systems. One of the reasons why it has become a classic on management cybernetics, now in its 11th edition, is that the strategies and heuristic principles of complexity management are still relevant - now more than ever."--Back cover.

Complex Systems Design & Management
Complex Systems Design & Management

Author: Daniel Krob

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-29

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 981996511X

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This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the 14th International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management CSD&M 2023 that took place in Beijing, People’s Republic of China by the end October 2023. Mastering complex systems requires an integrated understanding of industrial practices as well as sophisticated theoretical techniques and tools. This explains the creation of an annual go-between European and Asian forum dedicated to academic researchers and industrial actors working on complex industrial systems architecting, modeling and engineering. These proceedings cover the most recent trends in the emerging field of complex systems, both from an academic and professional perspective. A special focus was put this year on “New Trends in Complex Systems Engineering.” The CSD&M series of conferences were initiated under the guidance of CESAM Community in Europe, managed by CESAMES. Its Asian version took place in Singapore for three consecutive sessions during 2014 and 2018. The fourth Asian edition was held in Beijing in hybrid with the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA) as the co-organizer in 2021. Since 2023, its European and Asian conferences merge into one, taking place in China and Europe in turn. CESAM Community aims in organizing the sharing of good practices in systems architecting and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and certifying the level of knowledge and proficiency in this field through the CESAM certification. The CESAM systems architecting, and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) certification is especially currently the most disseminated professional certification in the world in this domain through more than 3,000 real complex system development projects on which it was operationally deployed and around 10,000 engineers who were trained on the CESAM framework at international level.

Production and Operations Analysis
Production and Operations Analysis

Author: Susmita Bandyopadhyay

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 1351113666

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The aim of this book is to cover various aspects of the Production and Operations Analysis. Apart from the introduction to basic understanding of each topic, the book will also provide insights to various conventional techniques as well as, various other mathematical and nature-based techniques extracted from the existing literature. Concepts like smart factories, intelligent manufacturing, and various techniques of manufacturing will also be included. Various types of numerical examples will also be presented in each chapter and the descriptions will be done in lucid style with figures, point-wise descriptions, tables, pictures to facilitate easy understanding of the subject.