About this book series

The main aim of this book series is to provide a floor for researchers, industries, asset managers, government policy makers and infrastructure operators to cooperate and collaborate among themselves to improve the performance and safety of the assets with maximum return on assets and improved utilization for the benefit of society and the environment.

Assets can be defined as any resource that will create value to the business. Assets include physical (railway, road, buildings, industrial etc.), human, and intangible assets (software, data etc.). The scope of the book series will be but not limited to:

  • Optimization, modelling and analysis of assets
  • Application of RAMS to the system of systems
  • Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research to deal with sustainability issues
  • Application of advanced analytics for improvement of systems
  • Application of computational intelligence, IT and software systems for decisions
  • Interdisciplinary approach to performance management
  • Integrated approach to system efficiency and effectiveness
  • Life cycle management of the assets
  • Integrated risk, hazard, vulnerability analysis and assurance management
  • Adaptability of the systems to the usage and environment
  • Integration of data-information-knowledge for decision support
  • Production rate enhancement with best practices
  • Optimization of renewable and non-renewable energy resources

Review Process

The proposal for each volume follows multi-pronged review process. The first level of review (single blind) is conducted by the series editors who may or may not decide to enlist the help of editorial board members for a second level of review. Proposals may also undergo a third level of peer review (double blind) if recommended by the Series Editors.

The series follows Ethics Statement found in the Springer standard guidelines here. https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/journal-author/journal-author-helpdesk/before-you-start/before-you-start/1330#c14214

Book titles in this series

  1. Studies in Quantitative Decision Making

    Selected Papers from XXIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management

    Editors:
    • Diptesh Ghosh
    • Avijit Khanra
    • S. V. Vanamalla
    • Faiz Hamid
    • Copyright: 2022

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook

Abstracted and indexed in

  1. zbMATH