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Planning (firm) --- Operational research. Game theory --- Job shops --- 658.513 --- Production scheduling --- Shops, Job --- Workshops --- Job scheduling (Production control) --- Job-shop scheduling --- Project scheduling (Production control) --- Scheduling (Management) --- Production control --- Scheduling --- Supervision of production work. Follow-up, progressing, expediting. Scheduling --- 658.513 Supervision of production work. Follow-up, progressing, expediting. Scheduling

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Decision making. --- Operations Research. --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science --- Decision making --- Prise de décision

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This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the development of scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions regarding scientific creativity and imagination, the status of scientific performances—such as thought experiments and visual aids—and the role of aesthetic considerations in the context of discovery and justification of scientific theories. Several contributions focus on the concept of beauty as employed by practising scientists, the aesthetic factors at play in science and their role in decision making. Other essays address the question of scientific creativity and how aesthetic judgment resolves the problem of theory choice by employing aesthetic criteria and incorporating insights from both objectivism and subjectivism. The volume also features original perspectives on the role of the sublime in science and sheds light on the empirical work studying the experience of the sublime in science and its relation to the experience of understanding. The Aesthetics of Science tackles these topics from a variety of novel and thought-provoking angles. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of science and aesthetics, as well as other subdisciplines such as epistemology and philosophy of mathematics.

Art and science --- Philosophy and science --- Aesthetics

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Web-based interactions to support participation and deliberative democracy, called e-participation and e-democracy, are coming and coming fast. In some instances, the Internet is already permeating politics. However, it is far from clear if the processes involved in these interactions are meaningful and valid, and most of the research in the field has focused largely on the technologies to facilitate or automate the standard democratic instruments involved, such as e-voting or e-debating. This book, though, uses the point of view of the Group Decision and Negotiation approach to thoroughly discuss how web-based decision support tools can be used for public policy decision making. e-Democracy is structured into five main parts. The first part places democracy in context and reviews participatory instruments already in use in the physical world. The second part reviews methodologies that may be used to support groups in public policy decision making with a view on discussing how they may be used in the virtual world. The third part reviews tools already available on the web to support public policy decision making, such as debating, negotiating, voting and supporting decisions; it also identifies their various strengths and weaknesses. The fourth part includes a number of recent case studies, and the final part identifies challenges ahead. Complete with a comprehensive bibliography, this first comprehensive review of e-participation and e-democracy is intended for students, researchers and practitioners in the field as well as researchers in Decision Analysis, Negotiation Analysis and Group Decision Support.

Democracy. --- Electronic government information. --- Information technology -- Political aspects. --- Internet -- Political aspects. --- Internet in public administration. --- Political participation -- Technological innovations. --- Management --- Sociology & Social History --- Government - General --- Management Theory --- Social Change --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Social Sciences --- Law, Politics & Government --- Business & Economics --- Group decision making. --- Negotiation. --- Bargaining --- Dickering --- Haggling --- Higgling --- Negotiating --- Negotiations --- Collective decision making --- Decision-making, Group --- Mathematics. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Political science. --- Computers and civilization. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Game theory. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Political Science. --- Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. --- Computers and Society. --- Discussion --- Psychology, Applied --- Decision making --- Computer science. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Informatics --- Science --- Math --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis

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The Bayesian approach to statistics and decision analysis is establishing itself as a powerful and practical tool to support the non-statistical, but otherwise technical, modeler. Recent advances in computational techniques have made Bayesian methods both accessible and widely applicable. This collection provides an argument for the wide application of Bayesian methods and includes an extensive collection of examples, techniques, and advice.

Mathematical statistics --- Bayesian statistical decision theory. --- Bayesian statistical decision theory --- Bayes' solution --- Bayesian analysis --- Statistical decision