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...

Themenöffnung -- Produktions- und Kostentheorie -- Strategisch-taktische Gestaltungszugänge -- Sourcing- und Materialmanagement -- Prozeßmanagement -- Produkt- und Programmanagement -- Workbook zur strukturierten Aufgabenbearbeitung -- Übungsklausur (60 min) -- Lösungen zu den Kapiteln 2 bis 8.

Das Buch bietet eine fundierte, anschauliche Einführung in die grundlegenden Modelle und Methoden des Operations Research, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Die lineare Optimierung wird einschließlich Dualität und Sensitivitätsanalyse behandelt, vielfältige Beispiele zeigen ihr...

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care. To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The...

" This book contains selected papers from the symposium ""Operations Research 2010"" which was held from September 1-3, 2010 at the ""Universität der Bundeswehr München"", Germany. The international conference, which also serves as the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society...

This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning. Based on the idea of using queueing networks for the analysis of dynamic-stochastic multi-project environments this book addresses two problems: detailed scheduling of project activities, and integrated order...

Simulated Annealing -- Tabu Search -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Scatter Search and Path-Relinking: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications -- Genetic Algorithms -- A Modern Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances...

This monograph deals with theoretical and practical aspects of creating course timetables at academic institutions. The task is typically to create a timetable that suits the requirements of the stakeholders - students, lecturers, and the administration - as well as possible. The book presents...

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...

Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning introduces the evolving area of static and dynamic simulation-based optimization. Covered in detail are model-free optimization techniques - especially designed for those discrete-event, stochastic...