The book is designed for use in courses that focus on the applications of constrained optimization, in courses that emphasize the theory, and in courses that link the subject to economics. It surveys models that optimize something, subject to constraints. The simplest such models are linear, and the ideas used to analyze linear models generalize easily. The book fuses five components: -It uses examples to introduce general ideas. -It engages the student in spreadsheet computation. -It surveys the uses of constrained optimization. -It presents the mathematics that relates to constrained...
The book is designed for use in courses that focus on the applications of constrained optimization, in courses that emphasize the theory, and in cours...
The Handbook of Production Planning provides a broad overview of the field, focusing on the needs of today's global markets and the directions in which the current tools and approaches need to evolve. Production planning problems are examined, and methodological solutions are explored.
The Handbook of Production Planning provides a broad overview of the field, focusing on the needs of today's global markets and the directions in whic...
Location analysis has matured from an area of theoretical inquiry that was designed to explain observed phenomena to a vibrant field which can be and has been used to locate items as diverse as landfills, fast food outlets, gas stations, as well as politicians and products in issue and feature spaces. Modern location science is dealt with by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners in geography, economics, operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science. Given the tremendous advances location science has seen from its humble beginnings, it is time to look back. The...
Location analysis has matured from an area of theoretical inquiry that was designed to explain observed phenomena to a vibrant field which can be and ...
This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots. Emerging as a quantitative approach to problem-solving in World War II, our founders were physicists, mathematicians, and engineers who quickly found peace-time uses. It is fair to say that Operations Research (OR) was born in the same incubator as computer science, and it has spawned many new disciplines, such as systems engineering, health care management, and transportation science. Although people from many disciplines routinely use OR methods, many scientific researchers, engineers, and others do not...
This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots. Emerging as a quantitative approach to problem-solving in Worl...
Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time, utilities are now exposed more than ever to risk and uncertainties, which they cannot pass on to their customers through price increases as in a regulated environment. Especially electricity-generating companies have to face volatile wholesale prices, fuel price uncertainty, limited long-term hedging possibilities and huge, to a large extent, sunk investments.
In this context, Uncertainty in the Electric Power Industry: Methods...
Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time...
Real-Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems focuses on the problem of managing the resource allocation taking place within the operational context of many contemporary technological applications, including flexibly automated production systems, automated railway and/or monorail transportation systems, electronic workflow management systems, and business transaction supporting systems. A distinct trait of all these applications is that they limit the role of the human element to remote high-level supervision, while placing the burden of the real-time monitoring and coordination of...
Real-Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems focuses on the problem of managing the resource allocation taking place within the operational ...
This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human health consequences of using antibiotics in food animals. In 2001, the United States FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) (FDA-CVM, 2001) published a risk assessment model for potential adverse human health consequences of using a certain class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones, to treat flocks of chickens with fatal respiratory disease caused by infectious bacteria. CVM's concern was that fluoroquinolones are also used in human medicine,...
This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human he...
MARKOV CHAINS: Models, Algorithms and Applications outlines recent developments of Markov chain models for modeling queueing sequences, Internet, re-manufacturing systems, reverse logistics, inventory systems, bio-informatics, DNA sequences, genetic networks, data mining, and many other practical systems.
The book consists of eight chapters. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to the classical theory on both discrete and continuous time Markov chains. The relationship between Markov chains of finite states and matrix theory is also discussed. Chapter 2...
MARKOV CHAINS: Models, Algorithms and Applications outlines recent developments of Markov chain models for modeling queueing seque...
It is not an exaggeration that much of what people devote in their hfe re- solves around optimization in one way or another. On one hand, many decision making problems in real applications naturally result in optimization problems in a form of integer programming. On the other hand, integer programming has been one of the great challenges for the optimization research community for many years, due to its computational difficulties: Exponential growth in its computational complexity with respect to the problem dimension. Since the pioneering work of R. Gomory 80] in the late 1950s, the...
It is not an exaggeration that much of what people devote in their hfe re- solves around optimization in one way or another. On one hand, many decisio...
"Daprima importa sappere di che cosa si tratta." ("The ?rst thing is to know what the talk is about.") Attributed to Vilfredo Pareto. This book results from my continuous and deep interest in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM). Eleven years ago I wrote in my p- vious monograph: "This work results from my interest in the ?eld of vector optimization. I stumbled ?rst upon this subject in 1982 ... ]. I was attracted then by a gap between vector optimization used to serve as a formal model for multiple objective decision problems and the - cision problems themselves, the gap nonexistent in...
"Daprima importa sappere di che cosa si tratta." ("The ?rst thing is to know what the talk is about.") Attributed to Vilfredo Pareto. This book result...
