Science in Action

Science in Action
Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674792913

From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.

Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science

Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science
Author: John Mingers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2006-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 038729841X

This book deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. It weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day. In doing so it creates a coherent path from fundamental work on philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology through specific domains of knowledge about the nature of information and meaning, human communication, and social intervention.

Process Mining

Process Mining
Author: Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662498510

This is the second edition of Wil van der Aalst’s seminal book on process mining, which now discusses the field also in the broader context of data science and big data approaches. It includes several additions and updates, e.g. on inductive mining techniques, the notion of alignments, a considerably expanded section on software tools and a completely new chapter of process mining in the large. It is self-contained, while at the same time covering the entire process-mining spectrum from process discovery to predictive analytics. After a general introduction to data science and process mining in Part I, Part II provides the basics of business process modeling and data mining necessary to understand the remainder of the book. Next, Part III focuses on process discovery as the most important process mining task, while Part IV moves beyond discovering the control flow of processes, highlighting conformance checking, and organizational and time perspectives. Part V offers a guide to successfully applying process mining in practice, including an introduction to the widely used open-source tool ProM and several commercial products. Lastly, Part VI takes a step back, reflecting on the material presented and the key open challenges. Overall, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in process mining. It is intended for business process analysts, business consultants, process managers, graduate students, and BPM researchers.

Networks in Action

Networks in Action
Author: Gerard Sierksma
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1441955135

One of the most well-known of all network optimization problems is the shortest path problem, where a shortest connection between two locations in a road network is to be found. This problem is the basis of route planners in vehicles and on the Internet. Networks are very common structures; they consist primarily of a ?nite number of locations (points, nodes), together with a number of links (edges, arcs, connections) between the locations. Very often a certain number is attached to the links, expressing the distance or the cost between the end points of that connection. Networks occur in an extremely wide range of applications, among them are: road networks; cable networks; human relations networks; project scheduling networks; production networks; distribution networks; neural networks; networks of atoms in molecules. In all these cases there are “objects” and “relations” between the objects. A n- work optimization problem is actually nothing else than the problem of ?nding a subset of the objects and the relations, such that a certain optimization objective is satis?ed.

Action Science

Action Science
Author: William H. Robertson
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145225656X

This book provides an approach to physical science instruction in a way that is interesting and engaging to students featuring author-created action sports videos and classroom activities focused on physical science concepts.

Plants in Action

Plants in Action
Author: Brian James Atwell
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Total Pages: 712
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780732944391

Accompanying CD-ROM includes 600 figures, tables and color plates from the book Plants in action which can be used for the production of color transparencies or for projections in lectures.

Action science

Action science
Author: Chris Argyris
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1985-11-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Business Analytics with Management Science Models and Methods

Business Analytics with Management Science Models and Methods
Author: Arben Asllani
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133760359

This book is about prescriptive analytics. It provides business practitioners and students with a selected set of management science and optimization techniques and discusses the fundamental concepts, methods, and models needed to understand and implement these techniques in the era of Big Data. A large number of management science models exist in the body of literature today. These models include optimization techniques or heuristics, static or dynamic programming, and deterministic or stochastic modeling. The topics selected in this book, mathematical programming and simulation modeling, are believed to be among the most popular management science tools, as they can be used to solve a majority of business optimization problems. Over the years, these techniques have become the weapon of choice for decision makers and practitioners when dealing with complex business systems.

Data and Decision Sciences in Action

Data and Decision Sciences in Action
Author: Ruhul Sarker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319559141

Offering a concise and multidisciplinary reference guide to the state of the art in Australian operations research, this book will be of great value to academics working in many disciplines associated with operations research, as well as industrial practitioners engaged in planning, scheduling and logistics. Over 60 papers, with topics ranging from academic research techniques and case studies to industrial and administrative best practices in operations research, address aspects such as: • optimization, combinatorial optimization, decision analysis, supply-chain management, queuing and routing, and project management; and • logistics, government, cyber security, health-care systems, mining and material processing, ergonomics and human factors, space applications, telecommunications and transportation, among many others. This book presents the Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, the premier professional organization for Australian academics and practitioners working in optimization and other disciplines related to operations research. The conference was held in Canberra in November 2016.