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

Focused on Intelligent System and Management Science

  • Innovative algorithm framework design for solving engineering problems successfully
  • Provides newest research achievements in the area of System Analysis and Intelligence
  • Provides frontier ideas of Computer Artificial Neural Network
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 280)

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Table of contents (69 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Intelligent Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Assessment of Hardware Product Design Defects by Fuzzy Neural Network Based on Genetic Algorithm

      • Huimeng Zheng, Weidong Liu, Chengdi Xiao, Weili Hu
      Pages 25-33
    3. Game Analysis and Improvement of the Medical Expenses Payment

      • Fang Qing, Li Luo, Ming Zhao, Qunrong Ren
      Pages 35-43
    4. A Multi-attribute Reverse Auction Decision Making Model Based on Multi-objective Programming

      • Yazhen Chen, Longbo Qiu, Tianyu Cao, Zhineng Hu
      Pages 73-81
    5. A Balanced Transfer Learning Model for Customer Churn Prediction

      • Bing Zhu, Jin Xiao, Changzheng He
      Pages 97-104
    6. Assessment Employee Empowerment Through Combination of FAHP and VIKOR Methods

      • Hossein Safari, Virgílio António Cruz-Machado, Alireza Faghih, Mohsen Heidari, Fatemeh Mirzaei Rabor
      Pages 105-116
    7. A Rumor Spreading Model Considering Latent State

      • Yi Zhang, Chong Chen
      Pages 155-162
    8. Linguistic Distribution Assessments with Interval Symbolic Proportions

      • Yuzhu Wu, Hengjie Zhang, Yucheng Dong
      Pages 163-173
    9. Modeling Business Interoperability in a Context of Collaborative Supply Chain Networks

      • Izunildo Cabral, Antonio Grilo, Antonio Gonçalves-Coelho, Antonio Mourão
      Pages 187-199
  3. Decision Support Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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 first volume are focused on Intelligent System and Management Science covering areas of Intelligent Systems, Decision Support Systems, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management.

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 Intelligent System and Management Science

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

  • Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55182-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55181-9Published: 19 May 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51528-0Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55182-6Published: 06 May 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2194-5357

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 811

  • Number of Illustrations: 138 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Management, Communications Engineering, Networks, Operations Research, Management Science

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