This textbook is comprised of detailed case studies covering challenging real world applications of OR techniques. Among the overall goals of the book is to provide readers with descriptions of the history and other background information on a variety of industries, service or other...

Conventional Optimization Techniques -- Evolutionary Computation -- Single Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: A Critical Review --...

This new edition covers the central concepts of practical optimization techniques, with an emphasis on methods that are both state-of-the-art and popular. Again a connection between the purely analytical character of an optimization problem and the behavior of algorithms used to solve the...

Introduction to Semidefinite, Conic and Polynomial Optimization -- The Approach of Moments for Polynomial Equations -- Algebraic Degree in Semidefinite and Polynomial Optimization -- Semidefinite Representation of Convex Sets and Convex Hulls -- Convex Hulls of Algebraic Sets -- Convex Relations...

The Exponential Distribution and the Poisson Process -- Introduction to Renewal Theory -- Introduction to Markov Chains -- From Single Server Queues to M/G/1 -- Priorities and Scheduling in M/G/1 -- M/G/1 Using Markov Chains and LSTs -- The G/M/1 Queueing System -- Continuous-time Markov Chains...

Search Games -- to Search Games -- Search Games in Compact Spaces -- General Framework -- Search for an Immobile Hider -- Search for a Mobile Hider -- Miscellaneous Search Games -- Search Games in Unbounded Domains -- General Framework -- On Minimax Properties of Geometric Trajectories -- Search...

Theory of Vector Optimization -- Nonlinear Multiobjective Programming -- Goal Programming in the Period 1990–2000 -- Fuzzy Multiobjective and Multilevel Optimization -- Interactive Nonlinear Multiobjective Procedures -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Multiple Objective Optimization -- Data...

This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance. In terms of empirical analysis techniques, Banking and Finance is a conservative discipline. As...

Methods -- The Formulation and Solution of Discrete Optimisation Models -- Continuous Approaches for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems -- Logic-Based Modeling -- Modelling for Feasibility - the Case of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares Problem -- Network Modelling -- Modeling and...

Paul Williams, a leading authority on modeling in integer programming, has written a concise, readable introduction to the science and art of using modeling in logic for integer programming. Written for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and practitioners, the book is...