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...

Introduction -- Classic regression metamodels and their designs -- Classic assumptions versus simulation practice -- Screening the many inputs of realistic simulation models -- Kriging metamodels and their designs -- Simulation optimization.

Scatter Search and Path Relinking: Advances and Applications -- An Introduction to Tabu Search -- Genetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming: Automatic Synthesis of Topologies and Numerical Parameters -- A Gentle Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Guided Local...

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 concentrates on providing technical tools to make the user of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies independent of bulky optimization computations. These bulky computations have been a necessary, but limiting, characteristic of interactive MCDM methodologies and...

Formal decision and evaluation models are so widespread that almost no one can pretend not to have used or suffered the consequences of one of them. This book is a guide aimed at helping the analyst to choose a model and use it consistently. A sound analysis of techniques is proposed and the...

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveysprovides survey articles and references of the seminal or state-of-the-art research on MCDA. The material covered ranges from the foundations of MCDA, over various MCDA methodologies (outranking methods, multiattribute utility and...

This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This...