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This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems.

The Handbook is a comprehensive research reference that is essential for anyone interested in conducting research in supply chain.

Handbook of Simulation Optimization

This book presents the state of the art in the application of operations research models to preventing terrorist attacks, planning and preparing for emergencies and responding to and recovering from disasters. Covers preparedness, relief efforts and more.

This is a carefully developed work focused on the analysis of supply chain interaction issues in emerging markets and industry sectors. The result is a volume that examines and provides practical solutions on interaction issues while being firmly grounded in research principles.

This is a carefully developed work focused on the analysis of supply chain interaction issues in emerging markets and industry sectors. The result is a volume that examines and provides practical solutions on interaction issues while being firmly grounded in research principles.

Multicriteria and Multiobjective Models for Risk, Reliability and Maintenance Decision Analysis

This is a new edition of Kleijnen's advanced expository book on statistical methods for the Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments (DASE).

This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of manufacturing as facilities planning, transportation and material handling systems, production scheduling, logistics, supply chain management and productivity and quality models.

This volume provides a survey of current research problems and results in humanitarian operations research. Additionally, it discusses existing applications of humanitarian operations research, and considers new research efforts that clearly extend existing research and applications.

In addition, it contains chapters on recent methodological developments that are gaining popularity in the area of marketing decision models, such as structural modeling, learning dynamics, choice modeling, eye-tracking and measurement.

This comprehensive edited volume is the first of its kind, designed to serve as a textbook for long-duration business analytics programs. In Part A, the tools used by business analysts are described in detail. In Part B, these tools are applied to construct models used to solve business problems.

This book examines ways to improve healthcare through reducing delays experienced by patients. It addresses crowding, examines management of demand, and offers analytical tools and models to support analysis of patient flows.

Urban congestion is a growing and seemingly intractable problem. This award-winning paper interweaves traffic data collection with data mining and operations research techniques to quantify the value of dynamic and time-sensitive information in city logistics.

Critical Infrastructures: State of the Art in Research and Application, comprising a selection of reviewed and edited contributions from all over the world, aims to shed light on the various aspects of critical infrastructures.

Potential Function Methods For Approximately Solving Linear Programming Problems breaks new ground in linear programming theory. During the last ten years, a new body of research within the field of optimization research has emerged, which seeks to develop good approximation algorithms for classes of linear programming problems.

This book covers modeling, programming and analysis of simulation experiments and offers a rigorous treatment of the foundations of simulation and why it works. Emphasizes lasting principles, includes end of chapter exercises and an online manual of solutions.

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 electroniccompanion contains models of problems to be solved built in Excel spreadsheetfiles.Optimizationmodels are too often oversimplifications of decision problems met in practice.

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.

In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. KEY WORDS Health care delivery, Health care planning HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 3 1.1 WORLDWIDE HEALTH: THE PAST 50 YEARS Human health has improved significantly in the last 50 years.

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?