Chapter1: Simulation of Rail Operations -- Chapter2: Capacity Assessment in Railway Networks -- Chapter3: Aggregation …This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation. The … Tools for Routing in Rail Freight Transport -- Chapter9: Optimization of Railway Freight Shunting -- Chapter10: Optimization …

optimization and approximate dynamic programming (ADP). To this end, the book contains two parts. In the first part, the general …This book provides a straightforward overview for every researcher interested in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing … problems as well as for the theoretical researcher looking for effective and efficient methods of stochastic dynamic …

This book presents the latest findings on stochastic dynamic programming models and on solving optimal control problems … determining the main characteristics in Markov chains, before proposing new approaches based on dynamic programming and …

models based on these approaches using mathematical programming. In addition to single-level dynamic lot-sizing models with … simulation-based optimization approach for a multi-location inventory system with substitutions is developed …

particular, applications in the area of transportation and logistics are considered, while other areas include production and …

newly defined concepts for the modelling and operationalization of supply chain risk within simulation and optimization … Chain Risk Analysis - Common Flaws, Core Areas, and Main Tasks • A Simulation-based Approach for Supply Chain Risk Analysis … Simulation-based Approach for Supply Chain Risk Analysis (SimSCRF) -- A Real Case Evaluation of the SimSCRF Approach -- Embedding …

The Handbook of Simulation Optimization presents an overview of the state of the art of simulation optimization …, providing a survey of the most well-established approaches for optimizing stochastic simulation models and a sampling of recent … research advances in theory and methodology. Leading contributors cover such topics as discrete optimization via simulation …