Bücher der Reihe International Series in Operations Research & Management Science

This handbook focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications in operations analytics which are fundamental tools and techniques for improving operation functions and attaining long-term competitiveness.

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level;

This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases. The book presents and elaborates a rich and comprehensive set of practical problems comprising multiple criteria, including numerous approaches for their solution, for decision support or decision aid.

This tremendous research activity has been prompted by the discovery of important applications in combinatorial optimization and control theory, the development of efficient interior-point algorithms for solving SDP problems, and the depth and elegance of the underlying optimization theory.

The crucial role played by risk analysis in stochastic supply chain models is demonstrated by the quickening pace of research on the topic. This monograph explores promising recent work on applying mean-risk methodology to dilemmas in supply-chain management.

3 The M 1M IS System with Last Come, First Served 50 3. 6 3. 8 56 4 ERLANGIAN QUEUEING SYSTEMS 59 4. 3 The System E/cl Mil 67 4. 5 Problems for Solution 74 PRIORITY SYSTEMS 79 5 5. 6 Problems for Solution 93 6 QUEUEING NETWORKS 97 6. 3 Closed Networks 103 Open Networks: The Product Formula 104 6. 5 Jackson Networks 111 6.

Chapter 10 is a tutorial that addresses the problem of product disposition on a closed-loop supply chain: what should a firm do with a product return?Chapters 11-15 address measurement, monitoring, decision-making, and reporting regarding environmental issues in a firm.

As a fundamental problem in stochastic inventory control, the newsvendor problem has been studied since the 18th century in the economic literature, and has been widely used to analyze supply chains in fashion and seasonal product industries.

Thus firms must weigh the benefits of product variety against its cost in order to determine the optimal level of product variety to offer to their customers. How can a company exploit its product and process design to deliver a higher level of product variety quickly and cheaply?

Models and Methods in Economics and Management Science

Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners summarizes knowledge from experts and from empirical studies. Contributions were written by 40 leading experts in forecasting, and the 30 chapters cover all types of forecasting methods.

The field of operations research has had a tremendous impact on the management of air transportation. This book shows some advances in optimization techniques and decision support systems applications in air transportation. It covers a variety of operations research topics in the air transportation industry.

Our objectives in writing Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook are threefold: (1) Provide a unified scheme for classifying the numerous project scheduling problems occurring in practice and studied in the literature;

At this point, software for the following four algorithms is available: The two-phase simplex method The primal-dual simplex method The path-following interior-point method The homogeneous self-dual methods.GBP/LISTGBP.

Developing some guiding principles to be used when evaluating alternative proposals for reorganizing the US electric power industry, this text contains preliminary versions of papers that were presented at a Workshop convened by the Electric Power Research Institute at Stanford University in 1997.

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria.

This book will help readers to better manage supply chains in emerging economics. It addresses a host of issues and challenges, from infrastructure constraints and the logistics inefficiencies to contributing to the social and environmental developments of emerging economies.

This book shows how the application of fuzzy logic can benefit management, group decision making, strategic planning, supply chain management and other business imperatives.

Multicriterion Decision in Management: Principles and Practice is the first multicriterion analysis book devoted exclusively to discrete multicriterion decision making.

Offers a mixture of theoretical, algorithmic, and application chapters providing examples of the work that Professor Keilson has done or influenced over the course of his highly-productive and energetic career in applied probability and stochastic processes.

In today's global economy, operations strategy in supply chains must assume an ever-expanding and strategic role of risks. These operational and strategic facets entail a brand new set of operational problems and risks that have not always been understood or managed very well.

Quality, Warranty and Preventive Maintenance examines the impact of product quality on warranty and maintenance costs and strategies, from the perspectives of both manufacturers and users.

Most books on inventory theory use the item approach to determine stock levels, ignoring the impact of unit cost, echelon location, and hardware indenture.

Constrained optimization models are core tools in business, science, government, and the military with applications including airline scheduling, control of petroleum refining operations, investment decisions, and many others. This book summarizes the advances in algorithms related to feasibility and infeasibility in optimization.

Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents.

This important new work provides a comprehensive discussion of the customer satisfaction evaluation problem. It presents an overview of the existing methodologies as well as the development and implementation of an original multicriteria method dubbed MUSA.

While maintaining the rigorous linear programming instruction required, Murty's new book is unique in its focus on developing modeling skills to support valid decision-making for complex real world problems, and includes solutions to brand new algorithms.

This book presents an investigation of the project's time performance measurement methods and risk analysis techniques in order to evaluate methods in terms of their abilities to improve the corrective actions decision-making process during project tracking.

This book aims to spark students' interest in modeling problems as networks. It contains a range of not-too-large network optimization problems that need to be analyzed and solved using the computer. All the exercises have been rigorously classroom-tested.

This book analyzes three manufacturing classes in its attempt to discover a unified theory for the design of an array of manufacturing and service systems. The analysis factors in market and operating risks.