Bücher der Reihe International Series in Operations Research & Management Science

It systematically examines the uncertainties power companies are facing and develops models to describe them - including an innovative approach combining fundamental and finance models for price modeling.

Focuses on the problem of managing the resource allocation taking place within the operational context of many technological applications, including flexibly automated production systems, automated railway and/or monorail transportation systems, electronic workflow management systems, and business transaction supporting systems.

A combination of both Integer Programming and Nonlinear Optimization, this is a powerful book that surveys the field and provides a state-of-the-art treatment of Nonlinear Integer Programming.

Focuses on the concepts and tools for the planning and management of an investment portfolio by a government or a business organization for either the development or the application of technologies.

Markov modeling has found applications in many areas, three of which are described in detail: Chapter 10 analyzes discrete-time queues, Chapter 11 describes networks of queues, and Chapter 12 deals with reliability theory.

Here is a much-needed attempt to reconcile optimization with apportionment in just-in-time (JIT) sequences. It argues that apportionment theory and optimization based on deviation functions provide benchmarks for a process, and examines recent developments.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible-but not simpler" Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated with it such as traffic congestion.

This important book is by top scholars in supply chain management, revenue management, and e-commerce, all of which are grounded in information technologies and consumer demand research. The book looks at new selling techniques designed to reach the consumer.

Book I considers the zero-sum game that results when the target (here called the Hider) does not want to be found. In this case the Searcher and the Hider can be thought of as a team of agents (simply called Player I and Player II) with identical aims, and the coordination problem they jointly face is called the Rendezvous Search Problem.

The Practice of Supply Chain Management: Where Theory and Application Converge is a must-have volume for users of supply chain management methods, supply chain management researchers, and students in supply chain management.

Formal decision and evaluation models are so widespread that almost no one can pretend not to have used or suffered the consequences of one of them. A sound analysis of techniques is proposed and the presentation can be extended to most decision and evaluation models as a "decision aiding methodology".

In supply chain management postponement is a deliberate to delay final manufacturing until a customer places an order. This work analyzes how both pull posteponement strategy and form postponement strategy can be leveraged to yield substantial benefits.

The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software en- neering and the advent of the intelligent transport systems has prompted traf c simulation to become one of the most used approaches for traf c analysis in s- port of the design and evaluation of traf c systems.

This important book is by top scholars in supply chain management, revenue management, and e-commerce, all of which are grounded in information technologies and consumer demand research. The book looks at new selling techniques designed to reach the consumer.

This book concentrates on providing technical tools to make the user of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies independent of bulky optimization computations. These bulky computations have been a necessary, but limiting, characteristic of interactive MCDM methodologies and algorithms.

This is an ideal textbook for students of experimental optimization techniques used in industrial production processes. It presents a detailed treatment of Bayesian Optimization approaches and it contains a mix of technical and practical sections.

This book focuses on forecasting foreign exchange rates via artificial neural networks (ANNs), creating and applying the highly useful computational techniques of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to foreign-exchange rate forecasting.

This book integrates the key concepts of mathematical programming and constraint programming into a unified framework that allows them to be generalized and combined. It provides a powerful, high-level modeling solution for optimization problems.

This book discusses systematically the many variations of vacation policy. The book discusses a variety of typical vacation model applications. Also, this is the first time G1/M/1 multi-server vacation models, both continuous and discrete, and the optimization and control issues have been presented in book form.

This examination of the history of major technologies in OR/MS, which have technically enabled and transformed us as a society, contains contributions from leading academics and practitioners that take a long-term perspective on developments in the field.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the mathematical concepts and principles of industrial mathematics. It provides an understanding of the fundamental mathematical principles used in Industrial Mathematics/OR in modeling problems and application solutions.

Authored by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this new edition has been comprehensively updated, with new material on contemporary models and methods including stochastic DEA models, material on Sharpe-ratio, and asset liability management.

Management Science published in 2005 a special volume featuring the "Ten most Influential Papers of the first 50 Years of Management Science." George Dantzig's original 1955 stochastic programming paper, "Linear Programming under Uncertainty," was featured among these ten.

This book is written by leading scholars in Network Science, Nonlinear Science and Infrastructure Systems, expressly to develop common theoretical underpinnings for better solutions to modern infrastructural problems.

In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice.

The most difficult part of making decisions in the health care field on all levels (national, regional, institutional, patient) is linked to the very complexity of the system itself, to the intrinsic uncertainty involved and its dynamic nature.

Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators recounts the development of the field of Operations Research (OR), the science of decision making.

The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems.

A critical resource for researchers and practitioners in the field of retailing, chapters in this book focus on three key areas: (1) empirical studies of retail supply chain practices, (2) assortment and inventory planning, and (3) integrating price optimization into retail supply chain decisions.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation defines hazardous materials (hazmat) as a substance or material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or property when transported in commerce.