Worldwide health care problems are a hot, growing application in Operations Research. Along with a quickly growing field is an active community of Medical OR and Risk Analysis researchers. Tony Cox is one of the leading research scholars in the field of Risk Heath Risk. His work on health risk...

This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science. The book is structured in three parts,...

“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...

The Evolving Context for Unit Commitment Decisions -- Why this Book? New Capabilities and New Needs for Unit Commitment Modeling -- Regulatory Evolution, Market Design and Unit Commitment -- Development of an Electric Energy Market Simulator -- New Features in Unit Commitment Models -- Auctions...

How to Make a Decision -- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Architectural Design -- Why is the Principal Eigenvector Necessary? -- Designing a Mousetrap -- Designing the Best Catamaran -- The Selection of a Bridge -- Measuring Dependence Between Activities: Input Output...

Single-Site Inventory Model for Repairable Items -- Metric: A Multi-Echelon Model -- Demand Processes and Demand Prediction -- Vari-Metric: A Multi-Echelon, Multi-Indenture Model -- Multi-Echelon, Multi-Indenture Models With Periodic Supply And Redundancy -- Special Topics in Periodic Supply --...