Perspectives in Operations Research : Papers in Honor of Saul Gass’ 80th Birthday

edited by Francis B. Alt, Michael C. Fu, Bruce L. Golden

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.

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Year of publication:	2006
Other Persons:	Alt, Francis B. (contributor) ; Fu, Michael (contributor) ; Golden, Bruce (contributor)
Publisher:	Boston, MA : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Subject:	Saul I. Gass \| Operations Research \| Operations research
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] ; Description [zbmath.org]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (IX, 431 p, digital)
Series:	Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series ; 36 SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Konferenzschrift ; Festschrift
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index CONTENTS; Photo Gallery; Part 1 History & Perspectives; Reflections on Saul Gass' Influence; Four Score Years of Saul I. Gass: Portrait of an OR Professional; In the Begining: Saul Gass and Other Pioneers; Learning from the Master: Saul Gass, Linear Programming, and the OR Profession; Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Reflections on Definitions of Operations Research by Morse and Kimball; Ben Franklin: America's First Operations Researcher; Good Management, the Missing XYZ Variables of OR Texts; The Operations Research Profession: Westward, Look, the Land is Bright Part II Optimization & Heuristic SearchChoosing a Combinatorial Auction Design: An Illustrated Example; Label-Correcting Shortest Path Algorithms Revisited; The Ubiquitous Farkas Lemma; Parametric Cardinality Probing in Set Partitioning; A Counting Problem in Linear Programming; Toward Exposing the Applicability of Gass & Saaty's Parametric Programming Procedure; The Noisy Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Analysis; The Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem: A Discussion of Several Heuristics; Twinless Strongly Connected Components; Part III Modeling & Making Decisions EOQ Rides Again!The Federal Express Local Sort Facility Employee Scheduling Problem; Sensitivity Analysis in Monte Carlo Simulation of Stochastic Activity Networks; The EM Algorithm, Its Randomized Implementation and Global Optimization: Some Challenges and Opportunities for Operations Research; Recovering Circles and Spheres from Point Data; Why the New York Yankees Signed Johnny Damon; Index
ISBN:	978-0-387-39934-8 ; 978-0-387-39933-1
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-0-387-39934-8 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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