Decision Analysis, Location Models, and Scheduling Problems

ISBN-13: 9783642073151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 457 str.

H. A. Eiselt; Carl-Louis Sandblom

Opis

The book presents a unified treatment of decision analysis, location theory and scheduling, with topics ranging from multicriteria decision-making, multiattribute utility theory, classical decision analysis and game theory, to location and layout planning, and to project and machine scheduling. While the emphasis of the book is on models and applications, the most important methods and algorithms, exact as well as heuristic, are described in detail and illustrated by numerical examples. The formulations and the discussion of a large variety of models provide insight into their structures, allowing the user to better evaluate the solutions to the problems.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"Decision Analysis, Location Models, and Scheduling Problems is best described as a broad review of topics relating to decision sciences. ... The authors move quickly into detailed topics, gearing the book for an advanced audience. ... it could serve nicely as the primary text for advanced OR courses intended to survey many topics in decision making. Eiselt and Sandblom provide several examples illustrating the use of the different methodologies, which may also make the book appealing to practitioners." (Brian Denton, Interfaces, Vol. 35 (3), 2005)

Spis treści

Notation.- I: Analysis of Decision Making.- 1 Multicriteria Decision Making.- 2 Games Against Nature.- 3 Game Theory.- II: Location and Layout Decisions.- 1 Fundamentals of Location and Layout Problems.- 2 Location Models on Networks.- 3 Continuous Location Models.- 4 Other Location Models.- 5 Layout Models.- III: Project Scheduling.- 1 Unconstrained Time Project Scheduling.- 2 Project Scheduling with Resource Constraints.- IV: Machine Scheduling Models.- 1 Fundamentals of Machine Scheduling.- 2 Single Machine Scheduling.- 3 Parallel Machine Models.- 4 Dedicated Machine and Resource-Constrained Models.- References.