Operational research Books

As e-commerce is rapidly changing, consumer access to everyday good is not made possible with advancements in logistics, real time management, and mobile technology. q-commerce uses urban fulfillment centers and last-minute delivery networks to meet with...

This book contains the most significant methods in the theory of queues, which are demonstrated on a large number of examples of queueing models. It includes a discussion of open problems and future research directions, followed by an extensive...

When people or computers need to make a decision, typically multiple conflicting criteria need to be evaluated; for example, when we buy a car, we need to consider safety, cost and comfort. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) has been researched for...

Technology is not an end in itself, but a way of satisfying human wants. It shows us how to solve the age-old economic problem of surviving and pros­ pering in a hard world. But to optimize the benefits of technological advance...

The Advanced Research Institute (A.R. 1.) on "the efficiency of Manufacturing Systems" was held under the auspices of the NATO Special Programm~ Panel on Systems Science as a part of the NATO Science Committee's continuous...

As the systems which form the fabric of modern society become more complex and more interdependent, the need for the understanding of the behavior of such systems becomes increasingly more essential. What are the causes and...

Stochastic processes are necessary ingredients for building models of a wide variety of phenomena exhibiting time varying randomness. This text offers easy access to this fundamental topic for many students of applied sciences...

This accessible book aims to collect in a single volume the essentials of stochastic networks. Stochastic networks have become widely used as a basic model of many physical systems in a diverse range of fields. Written by...

An Introduction To Logic.- Integer Programming.- Modelling In Logic For Integer Programming.- The Satisfiability Problem and Its Extensions.

The era of interior point methods (IPMs) was initiated by N. Karmarkar's 1984 paper, which triggered turbulent research and reshaped almost all areas of optimization theory and computational practice. This book offers...

Preface * Foreword by General George Babbitt * Introduction * Background * Backgound Concepts * An Exact Model * Tactical Planning Models * A Continuous Time * Lateral Resupply * Capacity Limited Systems * Extension of Palm's Theorem to Non-Stationary...

Convex sets and convex functions: the fundamentals.- Continuity and ?(X).- The derivatives and the subdifferential.- Minima and quasi minima.- The Fenchel conjugate.- Duality.- Linear programming and game theory.- Hypertopologies, hyperconvergences.-...

The Milk Trade in New York and Vicinity is a historical non-fiction book written by John Mullaly in 1853. The book explores the milk industry in New York City and the surrounding areas during the mid-19th century. Mullaly provides a detailed account of...

The aim of this book is to provide insight into Data Science and Artificial Learning Techniques based on Industry 4.0, conveys how Machine Learning & Data Science are becoming an essential part of industrial and academic research. Varying from...

Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units,...

Two-person zero-sum game theory deals with situations that are perfectly competitive-there are exactly two decision makers for whom there is no possibility of cooperation or compromise. It is the most fundamental part of game...

 Some Equivalences among Nonlinear Complementarity Problems, Least-Element Problems and Variational Inequality Problems in Ordered Spaces. Qamrul Hasan Ansari and Jen-Chih Yao. -Generalized Monotone Maps and Complementarity Problems. S. K. Neogy and...

Chapter 1. Preliminaries.- Chapter 2. The Basic Multiperiod Dynamic Model.- Chapter 3. Extensions of the Basic Multiperiod Dynamic Model.- Chapter 4. Continuous Review Perishable Inventory Models.- Chapter 5. Approximate Order Policies.- Chapter 6...

This book on constrained optimization is novel in that it fuses these themes: • use examples to introduce general ideas; • engage the student in spreadsheet computation; • survey the uses of constrained optimization;. •...

Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government. The goal of...

Inventory and Supply Chain Models with Forecast Updates.- Examples from Industry.- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes.- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes and Fixed Cost.- Inventory Models with Three Consecutive...

Pre-Semirings, Semirings and Dioids.- Combinatorial Properties of (Pre)-Semirings.- Topology on Ordered Sets: Topological Dioids.- Solving Linear Systems in Dioids.- Linear Dependence and Independence in Semi-Modules and Moduloids.- Eigenvalues and...

Seeking Feasibility.- Preliminaries.- Seeking Feasibility in Linear Programs.- Seeking Feasibility in Mixed-Integer Linear Programs.- A Brief Tour of Constraint Programming.- Seeking Feasibility in Nonlinear Programs.- Analyzing Infeasibility.- Isolating...

Preliminaries.- The Theory of Apportionment and Just-In-Time Sequences.- Minimization of Just-In-Time Sequence Deviation.- Optimality of Cyclic Sequences and the Oneness.- Bottleneck Minimization.- Competition-Free Instances, The Fraenkel's Conjecture,...

Management in the Age of Risk.- Stochastic Management Approach.- Risk Chains and Balancing.- Stochastic Management Model.- Management Cycle Model.- Limit-Cycle Model.- Management with Sales Risk.- Service Versus Manufacturing Model.- Stream Risk...

Water as a Natural Resource.- Hydropower with Constraints.- Multiple Producers.- Mix of Thermal and Hydropower Plants.- Trade.- Transmission.- Market Power.- Uncertainty.- Summary and Conclusions.

The Pareto-Optima of Finite-Horizon OLG Models.- Derivative Properties of Directional Technology Distance Functions.- Synergistic Mergers in an Agency Context: An Illustration of the Interaction of the Observability Problem and Synergistic Merger.- The...

and Overview.- Quantify Values and Risk Attitudes.- Create Innovative Portfolio Alternatives.- Determine and Forecast Relationships: Major Analytic Methods.- Determine and Forecast Relationships: Qualitative Approaches.- Find the Optimal Technology...

Preface.- 1. Customer-oriented traffic planning.- PART I. STOP LOCATION.- 2. Introduction.- 3. Covering all demand points.- 4. Bicriterial stop location.- 5. Extensions.- PART II. DELAY MANAGEMENT.- 6. Introduction.- 7. Delay management with fixed...

Classical Training Methods.- Local Search Based Methods.- Simulated Annealing.- Tabu Search.- Variable Neighbourhood Search.- Population Based Methods.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Genetic Algorithms.- Scatter Search.- Other Advanced Methods...

Models.- A Practical and Accurate Alternative to PERT.- Proactive-Reactive Project Scheduling Trade-Offs and Procedures.- Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Models under Random Disturbances.- Due Dates and RCPSP.- RCPS with Variable Intensity...

Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from "real world"...

Foreword.- Contributing Authors.- Preface.- A Primer in Column Generation.- Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints.- Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Branch-and-Price Heuristics: A Case Study on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time...

Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Mathematics Foundations 1.2.1 Norm 1.2.2 Inverse and Generalized Inverse of a Matrix1.2.3 Properties of Eigenvalues 1.2.4 Rank-One Update 1.2.5 Function and Differential 1.3 Convex Sets and Convex Functions 1.3...

Quadratic programs and affine variational inequalities represent two fundamental, closely-related classes of problems in the t,heories of mathematical programming and variational inequalities, resp- tively. This book develops a...

In February 2002, the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) De partment at the University of Florida hosted a National Science Founda tion Workshop on Collaboration and Negotiation in Supply Chain Man agement and E Commerce...

Introduction: Machine Learning for Intelligent Optimization.- Reacting on the neighborhood.- Reacting on the Annealing Schedule.- Reactive Prohibitions.- Reacting on the Objective Function.- Reacting on the Objective Function.- Supervised Learning.-...

The present volume is a collective monograph devoted to applications of the optimal design theory in optimization and statistics. The chapters re?ect the topics discussed at the workshop "W-Optimum Design and Related ...

The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial...

How could hybrid organizations and leaders improve effectiveness in order to increase the chances of success for their business organizations in East Asia? The author presents a theoretical framework and investigates the preferences and networkability in...

This book discusses new determinants for optimal portfolio selection. It reviews the existing modelling framework and creates mean-variance efficient portfolios from the securities companies on the National Stock Exchange. Comparisons enable researchers...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent developments in production planning. The monograph begins with an introductory chapter reviewing the need for these production planning models, that operate by determining time-phased releases of work...

The financial results of any manufacturing company can be dramatically impacted by the repetitive decisions required to control a complex production network be it a network of machines in a factory; a network of factories in a company; or a network of...

With the pressure of time-based competition increasing, and customers demanding faster service, availability of service parts becomes a critical component of manufacturing and servicing operations. Service Parts Management...

In the past decades several researchers have developed statistical models for the prediction of corporate bankruptcy, e. g. Altman (1968) and Bilderbeek (1983). A model for predicting corporate bankruptcy aims to describe the...

A logic view of 0-1 integer programming problems, providing new insights into the structure of problems that can lead the researcher to more effective solution techniques depending on the problem class. Operations research...

Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions. Simultaneously, given the existence of paradoxes under the expected...