This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of "dark tourism", the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism...

Introduction -- Modeling in a problem-solving framework -- Spreadsheet engineering -- Analysis using spreadsheets -- Data exploration and preparation -- Classification and prediction methods -- Short-term forecasting -- Nonlinear optimization -- Linear optimization -- Optimization of network...