Operational research

The interest in the mathematical modeling of transportation systems stems from the need to predict how people might make use of new or improved transport infrastruc- ture in order to evaluate the benefit of the required investments.

Current1y there is a vast amount of literature on nonlinear programming in finite dimensions.

This mono graph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as weIl as for the researchers who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research.

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This is a revised version of a doctoral thesis, submitted in mimeographed fonn to the Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University, 1988.

Within a project human and non-human resources are pulled together in a tempo- raray organization in order to achieve a predefined goal (d.

Generalizations of the classical concept of a convexfunction have been proposed in various fields such aseconomics, management science, engineering, statistics andapplied sciences during the second half of this century.

In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza- tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den- mark, 1992, p.

This monograph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as well as for researchers, who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research.

Generalizations of convex functions have been used in a variety of fields such as economics.

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This book describes some models from the theory of investment which are mainly characterized by three features.

In the literature of decision analysis it is traditional to rely on the tools provided by probability theory to deal with problems in which uncertainty plays a substantive role.

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

In vector optimization one investigates optimization problems in an abstract setting which have a not necessarily real-valued objective function.

In the past, technological as well as economic forces dominated the evolution of industrial structures: these factors have been treated extensively in numerous studies.

These proceedings include papers presented at the VII-th Internatio- nal Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making which was held in Kyoto/Japan on August 18-22, 1986.

Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science.

The variable metric algorithm is widely recognised as one of the most efficient ways of solving the following problem:- Locate x* a local minimum point n ( 1) of f(x) x E R Considerable attention has been given to the study of the convergence prop- ties of this algorithm especially for the case where analytic expressions are avai- ble for the derivatives g.

Imbedding is a powerful and versatile tool for problem- solving.

The present work is an extended version of a manuscript of a course which the author taught at the University of Hamburg during summer 1969.

This study has grown out of a part of the author's thesis "e;Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior"e; submitted to the University of Western Australia (1964) and a course on Queueing Theory given to graduate students in the Operations Research Group of Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.

The following monograph deals with the approximate stochastic behavior of a system consisting of a sequence of servers in series with finite storage between consecutive servers.

The papers appearing in this Volume were selected from a collec- tion of papers presented at the Internationa~ Symposium on Extrema~ Methods and Systems Ana~ysis on the Occasion of Professor A.

This book is intended as a contribution to the theory of markets with imperfect information.

The Fifth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, not suprisingly, had several objectives.

Semi-infinite programming is a natural extension of linear pro- gramming that allows finitely many variables to appear in infinitely many constraints.

During the Spring of 1979 one of us (Zionts) was invited to visit Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Fourth International MCDM Conference follows a tradition that began with an exploratory gathering at the University of South Carolina in 1973.

Decision making is the process of selecting a possible course of action from all the available alternatives.

This collection of articles aspires to be a permanent record of ideas which are likely to become important determinants in the future of management sciences.

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium on "e;Decision processes in Economics"e; which was held in Modena (Italy) on 9-10 October 1989.

The title of this book seems to indicate that the volume is dedicated to a very specialized and narrow area, i.

Billions of dollars are tied up in the inventories of manufacturing companies which cause large (interest) costs.

"e;Advances in Bio-inspired Combinatorial Optimization Problems"e; illustrates several recent bio-inspired efficient algorithms for solving NP-hard problems.

This book is devoted to a novel approach for dimensionality reduction based on the famous nearest neighbor method that is a powerful classification and regression approach.

The book covers the standard models and techniques used in decision making in organizations.

Optimization problems were and still are the focus of mathematics from antiquity to the present.