The new third edition is written in a manner consistent with the direction of business education. The book includes extensive material in response to five concerns of contemporary business education: (1) globalization, (2) ethics, (3) cross-disciplinary activities, (4) quality management, and (5) global sustainability. The authors present current finance practices of world-class companies as contrasted with the limitations of former financial approach of Shareholder Wealth Maximization. On...

The present book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 14th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2024), that was held in Dijon, France, from 10-12 July. The conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based ...

This book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2023), that was held in Rome, Italy, from July 12 to 14. The conference brought together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also ...

This present book includes a set of selected best extended papers from the 12th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2022), that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 14 to 16, 2022. The conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the confe...

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2021) that was held as an online event, from July 7 to 9, 2021. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners interested in methodologies and applications of modeling and simulation. New and innovative solutions are reported in this book. A selection was made after the conference, based also on the confe...

For all students who wish to understand current economic and business literature, knowledge of mathematical methods has become a prerequisite. Clear and concise, with precise definitions and theorems, Werner and Sotskov cover all the major topics required to gain a firm grounding in this subject including sequences, series, applications in finance, functions, differentiations, differentials and difference equations, optimizations with and without constraints, integrations and much more.

This book contains fifty-eight revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science conference, held in London, U.K., 4-6 July, 2012.Topics covered include Applied and Engineering Mathematics, Computational Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Internet Engineering, Wireless Networks, Knowledge Engineering, Computational Intelligence, High Performance Computing, Manufactu...

The 7-volume set LNCS 14832 – 14838 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2024, which took place in Malaga, Spain, during July 2–4, 2024.The 155 full papers and 70 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 430 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: ICCS 2024 Main Track Full Papers;Part II: ICCS...

This book includes innovative research work presented at ICO’2018, the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization, held in Pattaya, Thailand on October 4–5, 2018. The conference presented topics ranging from power quality, reliability, security assurance, cloud computing, smart cities, renewable energy, agro-engineering, smart vehicles, deep learning, block chain, power systems, AI, machine learning, manufacturing systems, and big-data analytics. This volume foc...

This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in colla...

The 7-volume set LNCS 14832 – 14838 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2024, which took place in Malaga, Spain, during July 2–4, 2024.The 155 full papers and 70 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 430 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: ICCS 2024 Main Track Full Papers;Part II: ICCS...

The 7-volume set LNCS 14832 – 14838 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2024, which took place in Malaga, Spain, during July 2–4, 2024.The 155 full papers and 70 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 430 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: ICCS 2024 Main Track Full Papers;Part II: ICCS...