Using Operations Research Methods for Homeland Security Problems -- Operations Research and Homeland Security: Overview and Case Study of Pandemic Influenza -- Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning -- Interdiction Models and Applications -- Time Discrepant Shipments in Manifest Data --...

This book concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings. It includes industry case studies that use innovative techniques as well as academic research results that can be used to improve production scheduling. Its purpose is to present scheduling...