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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Slack Nigel"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Operations management / / Nigel Slack, Alistair Brandon-Jones, Robert Johnston"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education, Limited, , [2016]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Â©2016"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[Eighth edition]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xxv, 728 pages) : illustrations"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Always learning"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"658.5"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Aziende industriali - Produzione - Organizzazione - Testi universitari"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Includes index."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief contents -- Contents -- Guide to 'operations in practice', examples, short cases and case studies -- Preface -- To the Instructor. . . -- To the Student. . . -- Ten steps to getting a better grade in operations management -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Part One DIRECTING THE OPERATION -- Chapter 1: Operations management -- Introduction -- What is operations management? -- Why is operations management important in all types of organization? -- What is the input-transformation-output process? -- What is the process hierarchy? -- How do operations and processes differ? -- What do operations managers do? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study : Design house partnerships at Concept Design Services -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 2: Operations performance -- Introduction -- Why is operations performance vital in any organization? -- How is operations performance judged at a societal level? -- How is operations performance judged at a strategic level? -- How is operations performance judged at an operational level? -- How can operations performance be measured? -- How do performance objectives trade off against each other? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study : Operations objectives at the Penang Mutiara -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 3: Operations strategy -- Introduction -- What is strategy and what is operations strategy? -- What is the difference between a 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' view of operations strategy? -- What is the difference between a 'market requirements' and an 'operations resources' view of operations "]
[{"$nulls":4},"strategy? -- How can operations strategy form the basis for operations improvement?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"How can an operations strategy be put together? The process of operations strategy -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study : McDonald's: half a century of growth -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 4: Product and service innovation -- Introduction -- What is product and service innovation? -- What is the strategic role of product and service innovation? -- What are the stages of product and service innovation? -- What are the benefits of interactive product and service innovation? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Developing 'Savory Rosti-crisps' at Dreddo Dan's -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 5: The structure and scope of operations -- Introduction -- What do we mean by the 'structure' and 'scope' of operations' supply networks? -- What configuration should a supply network have? -- How much capacity should operations plan to have? -- Where should operations be located? -- How vertically integrated should an operation's network be? -- How do operations decide what to do in-house and what to outsource? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Aarens Electronic -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Supplement to Chapter 5: Forecasting -- Introduction -- Forecasting - knowing the options -- In essence forecasting is simple -- Approaches to forecasting -- Selected further reading -- Part Two DESIGNING THE OPERATION -- Chapter 6: Process design -- Introduction -- What is process design? -- What should be the objectives of process design? -- How do volume and variety affect process design? -- How are processes designed in detail? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: The Action Response Applications Processing Unit (ARAPU) -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 7: Layout and flow."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Introduction -- What is layout and how can it influence performance? -- What are the basic layout types used in operations? -- How does the appearance of an operation affect its performance? -- How should each basic layout type be designed in detail? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: The event hub -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 8: Process technology -- Introduction -- What is process technology? -- What do operations managers need to know about process technology? -- How are process technologies evaluated? -- How are process technologies implemented? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Rochem Ltd -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 9: People in operations -- Introduction -- Why are people so important in operations management? -- How do operations managers contribute to human resource strategy? -- How can the operations function be organized? -- How do we go about designing jobs? -- How are work times allocated? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Grace faces (three) problems -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Supplement to Chapter 9: Work study -- Introduction -- Method study in job design -- Work measurement in job design -- Part Three DELIVER -- Chapter 10: Planning and control -- Introduction -- What is planning and control? -- What is the difference between planning and control? -- How do supply and demand affect planning and control? -- What are the activities of planning and control? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: subText Studios Singapore -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 11: Capacity management -- Introduction -- What is capacity management? -- How are demand and capacity measured? -- How should the operation's base capacity be "]
[{"$nulls":4},"set?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"What are the ways of coping with mismatches between demand and capacity? -- How can operations understand the consequences of their capacity decisions? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Blackberry Hill Farm -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Supplement to Chapter 11: Analytical queuing models -- Introduction -- Notation -- Variability -- Incorporating Little's law -- Types of queuing system -- Chapter 12: Supply chain management -- Introduction -- What is supply chain management? -- How should supply chains compete? -- How should relationships in supply chains be managed? -- How is the supply side managed? -- How is the demand side managed? -- What are the dynamics of supply chains? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Supplying fast fashion -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 13: Inventory management -- Introduction -- What is inventory? -- Why should there be any inventory? -- How much to order? The volume decision -- When to place an order? The timing decision -- How can inventory be controlled? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: supplies4medics.com -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 14: Planning and control systems -- Introduction -- What are planning and control systems? -- What is enterprise resource planning and how did it develop into the most common planning and control system? -- How should planning and control systems be implemented? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Psycho Sports Ltd -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Supplement to Chapter 14: Materials requirements planning (MRP) -- Introduction -- Master production schedule -- The bill of materials (BOM) -- Inventory records -- The MRP netting process -- MRP capacity checks -- Summary."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Chapter 15: Lean operations -- Introduction -- What is lean? -- How does lean eliminate waste? -- How does lean apply throughout the supply network? -- How does lean compare with other approaches? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Saint Bridget's Hospital -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Part Four DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 16: Operations improvement -- Introduction -- Why is improvement so important in operations management? -- What are the key elements of operations improvement? -- What are the broad approaches to improvement? -- What techniques can be used for improvement? -- How can the improvement process be managed? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Reinventing Singapore's libraries -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 17: Quality management -- Introduction -- What is quality and why is it so important? -- What steps lead towards conformance to specification? -- What is total quality management (TQM)? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Turnaround at the Preston plant -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Supplement to Chapter 17: Statistical process control -- Introduction -- Control charts -- Variation in process quality -- Control charts for attributes -- Control chart for variables -- Summary of supplement -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 18: Managing risk and recovery -- Introduction -- What is risk management? -- How can operations assess the potential causes and consequences of failure? -- How can failures be prevented? -- How can operations mitigate the effects of failure? -- How can operations recover from the effects of failure? -- Summary answers to key questions -- Case study: Slagelse Industrial Services (SIS) -- Problems and applications -- Selected further reading -- Chapter 19: Project management."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Introduction."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Operations management is important, exciting, challenging ... and everywhere you look!       Important, because it enables organizations to provide services and products that we all need      Exciting, because it is central to constant changes in customer preference, networks of supply and demand, and developments in technology      Challenging, because solutions must be must be financially sound, resource-efficient, as well as environmentally and socially responsible      And everywhere, because in our daily lives, whether at work or at home, we all experience and manage processes and operations."]
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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Communications and Networking : 11th EAI international Conference, ChinaCom 2016 Chongqing, China, September 24-26, 2016, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Qianbin Chen, Weixiao Meng, Liqiang Zhao"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9783319666280"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3319666282"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2018.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (XXI, 600 p. 313 illus.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, , 1867-822X ; ; 210"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"004.6"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Computer networks"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Computers, Special purpose"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Computer simulation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Data protection"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic digital computers - Evaluation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Computer Communication Networks"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Computer Modelling"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Data and Information Security"]
[{"$nulls":4},"System Performance and Evaluation"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Part II -- Contents -- Part I -- Energy Harvesting Systems -- Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Energy Harvesting Communication Systems: A Heuristic Algorithm -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model and Problem Formulation -- 3 Suboptimal Solution to Resource Allocation Optimization Problem -- 4 Simulation Results and Analysis -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Relay Selection Scheme for Energy Harvesting Cooperative Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Relay Selection Schemes -- 4 Performance Analysis -- 5 Numerical Results -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Dynamic Power Control for Throughput Maximization in Hybrid Energy Harvesting Node -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model and Problem Formulation "]
[{"$nulls":4},"-- 3 Solution of the Optimization Problem -- 3.1 The Dynamic Algorithm -- 3.2 Analysis of Complexity of the Proposed Algorithm -- 4 Simulation Results -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Power Allocation Algorithm for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Based on Energy Harvesting -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Power Allocation Algorithm -- 4 Simulation Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Price-Based Power Allocation in Energy Harvesting Wireless Cooperative Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model and Problem Formulation -- 3 Optimal Price-Based Power Allocation Algorithm -- 4 Simulation Results -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Resource Allocation Schemes (1) -- Coverage and Capacity Optimization Based on Tabu Search in Ultra-Dense Network -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Optimization Schemes Based on Tabu Search -- 4 Simulation Results -- 4.1 Scenario -- 4.2 Analysis -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Dynamic APs Grouping Scheme Base on Energy Efficiency in UUDN -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2 System Model -- 2.1 UUDN System Architecture -- 2.2 Channel Model -- 3 Dynamic APs Grouping Scheme -- 4 Problem Formulation and Optimal Solution -- 4.1 Problem Formulation -- 4.2 Optimal Solution -- 5 Simulation Results and Discussions -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Virtual Small Cell Selection Schemes Based on Sum Rate Analysis in Ultra-Dense Network -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Ergodic Sum Rate Analysis -- 4 Analysis on VSC Selection Schemes -- 4.1 VSC Selection Scheme Based on Minimum Distance -- 4.2 VSC Selection Scheme Based on Pattern Search -- 5 Simulation Results and Analysis -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- System Level Performance Evaluation for Ultra-Dense Networks -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 2.1 Scenario and Parameter -- 2.2 Channel Model -- 2.3 Antenna Model -- 2.4 Protocol Stack -- 3 Simulation Evaluation -- 3.1 SINR -- 3.2 Throughput -- 3.3 Spectrum Efficiency -- 3.4 Energy Efficiency -- 4 Challenges in Ultra Dense Networks -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Green Distributed Power Control Algorithm for Multi-user Cognitive Radio Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model and Problem Formulation -- 3 Review of NPG and Stackelberg Game -- 3.1 NPG Algorithm and NE -- 3.2 The Single-Leader Stackelberg Game for Power Control -- 4 Distributed Multi-leader Stackelberg Power Control Game -- 4.1 The Criterion of Choosing Leader in DMSPG Algorithm -- 4.2 The Proposed DMSPG Algorithm -- 4.3 Analysis of Multi-leader Game and Continuous Pareto Improvements in DMSPG -- 5 Numerical Results -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Optimal Channel Selection and Power Control over D2D Communications Based Cognitive Radio Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The System Model -- 2.1 Network Model -- 2.2 Channel Model -- 2.3 Virtual Queue Model."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2.4 Video Distortion Model -- 3 Video Distortion Minimization -- 3.1 Problem Formulation -- 3.2 Lagrange-Dual Method -- 4 Numerical Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Network Architecture and SDN -- Research on Load Balancing for Software Defined Cloud-Fog Network in Real-Time Mobile Face Recognition -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 SDC-FN Architecture -- 3 FWA-Based Load Balancing Algorithm in SDC-FN -- 3.1 Theoretical Model -- 3.2 SDN-Based FWA Algorithm -- 4 Simulation Results -- 4.1 Latency Performance Comparison Between the Cloud-Based Architecture and SDC-FN -- 4.2 Latency Performance Comparison of Multiple Load Balancing Algorithms -- 4.3 Influence of the Uplink Bandwidth for the Latency of SDC-FN -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Applying TOPSIS Method for Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controllers Comparison and Selection -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 SDN Controllers Investigation -- 2.1 Methodology for the Investigation -- 2.2 SDN Controllers Overview -- 3 The Decision Making Method -- 3.1 The Concept of TOPSIS Method -- 3.2 Determination of Criteria Weights -- 3.3 Selecting the Best Alternative -- 4 The Best SDN Controller Selection (Experimental Results) -- 5 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Robust Congestion Control in NFVs and WSDNs with Propagation Delay and External Interference -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Model and Analysis -- 3 Problem Formulations of Robust H Control -- 4 Criteria of Robust H Control -- 5 Simulation Results -- 5.1 Effectiveness Verification of the Proposed Scheme -- 5.2 Design of Control Policy on Robust H Control -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Latency-Aware Reliable Controller Placements in SDNs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Formulation -- 3 Algorithm for Controller Placements -- 3.1 The Construction of the Auxiliary Graph -- 3.2 Controller Placement."]
[{"$nulls":4},"4 Performance Evaluation -- 4.1 Simulation Setup -- 4.2 Performance Evaluation of the Proposed Algorithm -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Signal Detection and Estimation (2) -- Multiantenna Based Blind Spectrum Sensing via Nonparametric Test -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 2.1 Signal Model -- 2.2 Previous Works -- 3 Nonparametric Test Based Detection -- 3.1 Binomial Distribution Based Detection -- 3.2 Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test Based Detection -- 4 Implementation and Complexity Comparison -- 5 Simulation Results -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Blind Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Using Right Anderson Darling Test -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Spectrum Sensing as Goodness of Fit Testing -- 4 Right-Anderson Darling Sensing -- 5 Simulation Results -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- A Computationally Efficient 2-D DOA Estimation Approach for Non-uniform Co-prime Arrays -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 MUSIC Spectrum and Proposed Method -- 3.1 MUSIC Spectrum -- 3.2 Joint Spectrum and Proposed Method -- 4 Numerical Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Low-Complexity MMSE Signal Detection Based on WSSOR Method for Massive MIMO Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Massive MIMO System Model -- 3 Near-Optimal Massive MIMO Signal Detector with Low Complexity -- 3.1 Signal Detection Based on WSSOR Method -- 3.2 Proper Relaxation and Parameter and Initial Solution -- 3.3 Computational Complexity Analysis -- 4 Simulation Result -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Channel Characteristics and User QoS-Aware Handoff Target Spectrum Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Interruption Delay Constraint and Transmission Time Constraint Formulation -- 3.1 Interruption Delay Constraint -- 3.2 Remaining Transmission Time Examination -- 4 Proposed Handoff Spectrum Selection Scheme."]
[{"$nulls":4},"4.1 Staying on Current Channel -- 4.2 Interruption Delay Constraint Based Spectrum Selection -- 4.3 Transmission Time Constraint Based Spectrum Selection -- 5 Simulation Results -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Heterogeneous Networks -- A Tractable Traffic-Aware User Association Scheme in Heterogeneous Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 2.1 Traffic-Aware User Association Scheme -- 2.2 SINR Model -- 3 System Performance Analysis -- 3.1 SINR Coverage -- 3.2 Rate Coverage -- 3.3 DL Throughput -- 4 Numerical Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- An Optimal Joint User Association and Power Allocation Algorithm for Secrecy Information Transmission in Heterogeneous Integrated Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 Secrecy Energy Efficiency Optimization Problem Formulation "]
[{"$nulls":4},"-- 4 Solution of the Optimization Problem -- 4.1 Optimal Power Allocation Subproblem -- 4.2 User Association Subproblem -- 5 Simulation Results -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Energy-Efficient Femtocells Active/Idle Control and Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 3 LB and FBSs Active/Idle Switch Strategies Algorithm -- 3.1 Load Balancing Design Under Fixed FBSs Active/Idle Strategies -- 3.2 FBSs Active/Idle Switch Strategies Control -- 4 Simulation Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Energy Efficiency of Heterogeneous Air-Ground Cellular Networks -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model -- 2.1 Hierarchy Architecture -- 2.2 System Energy Efficiency -- 3 EE Analysis for Heterogeneous Networks -- 3.1 Interference Analysis and EE Formulation -- 3.2 Proof of Existence of the Optimal Solution -- 4 Simulation Results -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Capacity Analysis in the Cognitive Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Stochastic Methods -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Model."]
[{"$nulls":4},"3 Capacity Derivation of Cognitive Heterogeneous Networks."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The two-volume set LNICST 209-210 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking, ChinaCom 2016, held in Chongqing, China, in September 2016. The total of 107 contributions presented in these volumes are carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The book is organized in topical sections on MAC schemes, traffic algorithms and routing algorithms, security, coding schemes, relay systems, optical systems and networks, signal detection and estimation, energy harvesting systems, resource allocation schemes, network architecture and SDM, heterogeneous networks, IoT (Internet of Things), hardware design and implementation, mobility management, SDN and clouds, navigation, tracking and localization, future mobile networks."]