Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research

Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research
Author: Tadashi Dohi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812706682

Operations research uses quantitative models to analyze and predict the behavior of systems and to provide information for decision makers. Two key concepts in operations research are optimization and uncertainty. This volume consists of a collection of peer reviewed papers from the International Workshop on Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research (RASOR 2005), August 25OCo26, 2005, Canmore, Alberta, Canada. In particular, the book focusses on models in stochastic operations research, including queueing models, inventory models, financial engineering models, reliability models, and simulations models."

Metaheuristics

Metaheuristics
Author: Karl F. Doerner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2007-08-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387719210

This book’s aim is to provide several different kinds of information: a delineation of general metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well-known classical application areas as well as an outlook to modern computational methods in promising new areas. Therefore, this book may equally serve as a textbook in graduate courses for students, as a reference book for people interested in engineering or social sciences, and as a collection of new and promising avenues for researchers working in this field.

Operations Research

Operations Research
Author: H. A. Eiselt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642310540

The book covers the standard models and techniques used in decision making in organizations. The main emphasis of the book is on modeling business-related scenarios and the generation of decision alternatives. Fully solved examples from many areas are used to illustrate the main concepts without getting bogged down in technical details. The book presents an approach to operations research that is heavily based on modeling and makes extensive use of sensitivity analyses. It is a result of many years of combined teaching experience of the authors. The second edition adds new material on multi-criteria optimization, postman problems, Lagrangian relaxation, cutting planes, machine scheduling, and Markov chains. Support material is found on a free website and includes some algorithms, additional fully solved problems and slides for instructors.

Perspectives in Operations Research

Perspectives in Operations Research
Author: Frank B. Alt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387399348

A Symposium was held on February 25, 2006 in honor of the 80th birthday of Saul I. Gass and his major contributions to the field of operations research over 50 years. This volume includes articles from each of the Symposium speakers plus 16 other articles from friends, colleagues, and former students. Each contributor offers a forward-looking perspective on the future development of the field.

Report of NRL Progress

Report of NRL Progress
Author: United States. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1973
Genre: Naval research
ISBN:

Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research II

Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research II
Author: Tadashi Dohi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9812791663

Operations research uses quantitative models to analyze and predict the behavior of systems and to provide information for decision makers. Two key concepts in such research are optimization and uncertainty. Typical models in stochastic operations research include queueing models, inventory models, financial engineering models, reliability models, and simulation models. This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the International Workshop on Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research (2007 RASOR Nanzan) held on March 5ndash;6, 2007, at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. It enables advanced readers to understand the recent topics and results in stochastic operations research.

Column Generation

Column Generation
Author: Guy Desaulniers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-03-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387254862

Column Generation is an insightful overview of the state of the art in integer programming column generation and its many applications. The volume begins with "A Primer in Column Generation" which outlines the theory and ideas necessary to solve large-scale practical problems, illustrated with a variety of examples. Other chapters follow this introduction on "Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints," "Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window," "Branch-and-Price Heuristics," "Cutting Stock Problems," each dealing with methodological aspects of the field. Three chapters deal with transportation applications: "Large-scale Models in the Airline Industry," "Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation," and "Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements." Production is the focus of another three chapters: "Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation," "Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling," and "Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling." The final chapter by François Vanderbeck, "Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation," reviews how to set-up the Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, adapt standard MIP techniques to the column generation context (branching, preprocessing, primal heuristics), and deal with specific column generation issues (initialization, stabilization, column management strategies).