Part I: Sources of uncertainty, risk, and imprecision -- Sources of Uncertainty in Location Analysis -- Risk, hazard and exposure time in Hazmat Location and Routing -- Customer related uncertainties in Facility Location Problems -- Part II: Models that protect against acts of nature, attackers,...

Foreword / by Kunal Kanti Ghosh -- Foreword / by Gautam Sinha -- Understanding supply chain -- Inventory models -- Sourcing decisions -- Production planning decisions -- Production control decisions -- Data mining and aggregation model -- Transportation and network planning models -- Location...

It is well-known that adding a little flexibility to the right place is an effective strategy to improve the performance of operations in the face of demand uncertainties, to ensure high level of capacity utilization. However, given that system disruptions are ubiquitous, the legacy flexibility...