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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910457694403321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Sharma Vivek"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Web-based and traditional outsourcing / / Vivek Sharma, Varun Sharma"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-429-13207-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4665-5143-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-283-59616-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613908612"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4398-1056-7"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st edition]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (888 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Infosys Press"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"658.4/05802854678"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Contracting out"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Information technology - Economic aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic data processing departments - Contracting out"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Technological innovations - Economic aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Intranets (Computer networks)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","An Auerbach book."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"section 1. General outsourcing -- section 2. Web-based outsourcing -- section 3. Slowdown and outsourcing -- section 4. Outsourcing : miscellaneous concerns and the future."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The book elucidates various outsourcing aspects and tackles nagging questions: * Should Outsourcing be considered at all or not? If so, what functions are potential candidates? * What factors contribute to outsourcing success and why do some companies flounder? * What do successful companies that solve customer problems do differently? * How may the Web be tapped to open a whole new world of outsourcing online? * During economic slowdown, what outsourcing business strategies need to be applied? Offering counsel on whether or not a function should be in house or contracted/outsourced and further how it should be properly evaluated is considered a complex and debatable topic and often there seem too many variables that favor one over the other. The book provides deep insight into such aspects of the outsourcing industry, which is under great flux. Lowering costs, enhancing quality and development of life cycle have been at the core "]
[{"$nulls":4},"of IT - ITES space. Outsourcing is now considered a strategic tool in the arsenal with businesses reaping its benefits in a fiercely competitive global business environment. The book is concerned with various outsourcing facets and provides current exhaustive business relevant material about the industry. Managing outsourced projects involve continuous people - technology dynamics along with cross cultural and geographic challenges. The authors have elucidated in the book that the greatest business enablers are the concept, people and technology. Emerging trends and practices in the outsourcing industry have been dealt with including practical ideas to facilitate success in outsourcing initiatives--"]
[null,"2.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910438073503321"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Markov chains : models, algorithms and applications / / Wai-Ki Ching ... [et al.]"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Springer US, c2013"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-4614-6312-2"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[2nd ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (243 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"International series in operations research & management science, , 0884-8289 ; ; 189"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"658.40301"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Markov processes"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Algorithms"]
[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","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Introduction -- Manufacturing and Re-manufacturing Systems -- A Hidden Markov Model for Customer Classification -- Markov Decision Processes for Customer Lifetime Value -- Higher-order Markov Chains -- Multivariate Markov Chains -- Hidden Markov Chains."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This new edition of Markov Chains: Models, Algorithms and Applications has been completely reformatted as a text, complete with end-of-chapter exercises, a new focus on management science, new applications of the models, and new examples with applications in financial risk management and modeling of financial data. This book consists of eight chapters.  Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the classical theory on both discrete and continuous time Markov chains. The relationship between Markov chains of finite states and matrix theory will also be highlighted. Some classical iterative methods for solving linear systems will be introduced for finding the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. The chapter then covers the basic theories and algorithms for hidden Markov models (HMMs) and Markov decision processes (MDPs). Chapter 2 discusses the applications of continuous time Markov chains to model queueing systems and discrete time Markov chain for computing the PageRank, the ranking of websites on the Internet. Chapter 3 studies Markovian models for manufacturing and re-manufacturing systems and presents closed form solutions and fast numerical algorithms for solving the captured systems. In Chapter 4, the authors present a simple hidden Markov model (HMM) with fast numerical algorithms for estimating the model parameters. An application of the HMM for customer classification is "]
[{"$nulls":4},"also presented. Chapter 5 discusses Markov decision processes for customer lifetime values. Customer Lifetime Values (CLV) is an important concept and quantity in marketing management. The authors present an approach based on Markov decision processes for the calculation of CLV using real data. Chapter 6 considers higher-order Markov chain models, particularly a class of parsimonious higher-order Markov chain models. Efficient estimation methods for model parameters based on linear programming are presented. Contemporary research results on applications to demand predictions, inventory control and financial risk measurement are also presented. In Chapter 7, a class of parsimonious multivariate Markov models is introduced. Again, efficient estimation methods based on linear programming are presented. Applications to demand predictions, inventory control policy and modeling credit ratings data are discussed. Finally, Chapter 8 re-visits hidden Markov models, and the authors present a new class of hidden Markov models with efficient algorithms for estimating the model parameters. Applications to modeling interest rates, credit ratings and default data are discussed. This book is aimed at senior undergraduate students, postgraduate students, professionals, practitioners, and researchers in applied mathematics, computational science, operational research, management science and finance, who are interested in the formulation and computation of queueing networks, Markov chain models and related topics. Readers are expected to have some basic knowledge of probability theory, Markov processes and matrix theory."]