Overview

This book demonstrates industrial applications of combinatorial optimization - optimization that involves a discrete but large number of alternatives. A wide range of applications is described including: Manpower planning, Production planning, Job sequencing and scheduling, Manufacturing layout design, Facility planning, Vehicle scheduling and routing, Retail seasonal planning, Space shuttle scheduling, and Telecommunication network design. A representative set of industry sectors is covered, including electronics, airlines, manufacturing, tobacco, retail, telecommunication, defense, and livestock. These examples illustrate the importance and practicality of optimization which is beginning to be realized by management of various organizations, as well as some of the pioneering developments in this field now beginning to bear fruit. Audience: Researchers and teachers in the fields of operations research/management, applied mathematics, management science, and system and industrial engineering; also managers, analysts, and system developers responsible for planning, scheduling, management, control, manpower deployment, distribution, procurement, and so forth.

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Author:   Gang Yu
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.563kg
ISBN:  

9781441947970

ISBN 10:   1441947973
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   07 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Moving Toward an Integrated Decision Support System for Manpower Planning at Continental Airlines: Optimization of Pilot Training Assignments; Gang Yu, et al. 2. Shortcomings of MRP II and a New Planning Meta-Method; A. Kimms, A. Drexl. 3. The Development, Implementation and Use of a Package to Facilitate Planning and Production Scheduling in a Tobacco Processing Plant; M.G. Nicholls. 4. Stability Radius of an Optimal Schedule: A Survey and Recent Developments; Y.N. Sotskov, et al. 5. Scheduling Jobs with Sequence Dependent Setups on Coupled Lines; E.C. Sewell, J.C. Tan. 6. Optimizing the Radial Component Insertion Operations on PCBs; S.Y. Chang, et al. 7. Combinatorial Optimization in a Cattle Yard: Feed Distribution, Vehicle Scheduling, Lot Sizing, and Dynamic Pen Assignment; M. Dror, J.M.Y. Leung. 8. Optimizing a Retail Promotional Calendar by Mixed Integer, Linear Programming; S.A. Smith. 9. An Implementation of a System Using Heuristics to Support Decisions About Shop Floor Setup Changes; R. Dé. 10. Integrative Population Analysis for Better Solutions to Large-Scale Mathematical Programs; F. Glover, et al. 11. Lagrangian Relaxation for Flow Shop Scheduling; G.G. Polak. 12. A Heuristic for Vehicle Routing and Manpower Planning; G.A. Bohoris, J.M. Thomas. 13. Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rail Car Unloading Area; J.F. Bard. 14. A Study of the Space Shuttle Scheduling Problem; S.A. Brah, J.L. Hunsucker. 15. Models and Implementation Techniques for Local Access Telecommunication Network Design; Geon Cho, D.X. Shaw.Appendix A: Pseudo-Code of Algorithm 2.

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