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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

Focused on Computing and Engineering Management

  • Strong background of practical management problem found in engineering practice
  • Effective mathematical engineering modelling
  • Successful application and case study in Engineering Management
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 281)

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Table of contents (69 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Computing Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 813-813
    2. Recent Advances in Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Manufacturing Scheduling Problems

      • Mitsuo Gen, Wenqiang Zhang, Lin Lin, Jungbok Jo
      Pages 815-831
    3. A Vector Space Model Approach for Searching and Matching Product E-Catalogues

      • Ahmad Mehrbod, Aneesh Zutshi, António Grilo
      Pages 833-842
    4. One-Step Classifier Ensemble Model for Customer Churn Prediction with Imbalanced Class

      • Jin Xiao, Geer Teng, Changzheng He, Bing Zhu
      Pages 843-854
    5. Synergy Effect of Knowledge Network and Its Self-Organization

      • Yue Wu, Xin Gu, Tao Wang
      Pages 855-860
    6. An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Option Pricing

      • Guang He, Nanjing Huang, Huiqiang Ma, Jue Lu, Meng Wu
      Pages 861-869
    7. How Venture Capital Institutions Affect the Structure of Startups’ Board of Directors

      • Yingkai Tang, Maomin Wu, Qilin Cao, Jing Zhou
      Pages 871-882
    8. Customer-Value Based Segmentation and Characteristics Analysis of Credit Card Revolver

      • Changzheng He, Mingzhu Zhang, Jianguo Zheng, Xiaoyu Li, Dongyue Du
      Pages 883-892
    9. Determination of the Control Chart CUSUM-\(\ln (S^{2})\)’s Parameters: Using a Computational Tool to Support Statistical Control

      • José Gomes Requeijo, Ricardo Costa Afonso, Ricardo Barros Cardoso, José Pedro Borrego
      Pages 905-914
    10. Road Map to the Statistical Process Control

      • José Gomes Requeijo, Rogério Puga-Leal, Ana Sofia Matos
      Pages 949-957
    11. Decision Methodology for Maintenance KPI Selection: Based on ELECTRE I

      • César Duarte Freitas Gonçalves, José António Mendonça Dias, Virgílio António Cruz-Machado
      Pages 1001-1012

About this book

This is the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM) held from July 25 to 27, 2014 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and organized by International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ISMSEM), Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal).

The goals of the conference are to foster international research collaborations in Management Science and Engineering Management as well as to provide a forum to present current findings. A total number of 138 papers from 14 countries are selected for the proceedings by the conference scientific committee through rigorous referee review.

The selected papers in the second volume are focused on Computing and Engineering Management covering areas of Computing Methodology, Project Management, Industrial Engineering and Information Technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  • Depart de Enge Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

  • LeBow College of Business Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

    Benjamin Lev

  • Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute ofTechnology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

About the editors

Jiuping Xu
Jiuping Xu holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Sichuan University, where he became a professor in 1995. At present, he is the Dean of the Business School at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, a Lifetime Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, President of the International Society for Management Science and Engineering Management and General Chair of the International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management.

Virgílio António Cruz Machado
Full Professor of Industrial Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He coordinates the Industrial Engineering PhD programme and post-graduation programmes in Project Management and Lean Management.

Benjamin Lev
Benjamin Lev holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. At present, he is the head of the Decision Sciences Department, LeBow College of Business at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science.

Stefan Nickel
Director at Karlsruhe Service Institute (KSRI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Faculty of Economics; Chair in Discrete Optimization and Logistics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Faculty of Economics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

  • Book Subtitle: Focused on Computing and Engineering Management

  • Editors: Jiuping Xu, Virgílio António Cruz-Machado, Benjamin Lev, Stefan Nickel

  • Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55121-5Published: 19 May 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52569-2Published: 01 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55122-2Published: 06 May 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2194-5357

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 798

  • Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Communications Engineering, Networks, Operations Management

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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