{"product_id":"9781402006111","title":"Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBusiness and Economics Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eEncyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSaul I. Gass | Carl M. Harris\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics \/ Operations Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe goal of the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Operations Research and  Management\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eScience\u003c\/em\u003e is to provide decision makers and problem  solvers in business, industry, government and academia with a  comprehensive overview of the wide range of ideas, methodologies, and  synergistic forces that combine to form the pre-eminent  decision-aiding fields of operations research and management science  (OR\/MS). The Second Edition is a further extension of this goal  - which through addressing and solving a wide range of problems  - OR\/MS methodologies continue to flourish and grow. This is a  field that is used extensively throughout the applied sciences, and,  because of this, the new edition has added topics in the following  areas: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalytic Network Process; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eCall  Centers; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eCertainty Equivalence; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eComb. Optimization by  Simulated CE; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eComputational Organization; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eConstraint  Programming; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eData Mining; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eDegeneracy Graphs;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eEconomic Order Q Extensions; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eEducational Issues in  B-Schools; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eElectronic Commerce; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eFinancial Markets;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eGlobal Climate Change; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHidden Markov Models; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHistory  of Early British OR; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eImplementation for Public Sector;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eInfo Tech Benefits; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eInteractive Multi-Objective Math.  Programming; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eKnapsacks with Nonlinearities; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eLittle's Law  in Distribution Form; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eMilitary Ops Other than War;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eMultivariate Quality Control; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003ePerturbation Analysis;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSimulation Metamodeling; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSimulation Optimization;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSupply Chain Management; \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTheory of Constraints;  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTimetabling.\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  The intended audience of the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Operations Research\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003eand Management Science\u003c\/em\u003e is technically diverse and wide; it  includes anyone concerned with the science, techniques, andideas of  how one makes decisions. As this audience encompasses many  professions, educational backgrounds and skills, we were attentive to  the form, format and scope of the articles. Thus, the articles are  designed to serve as initial sources of information for all such  readers, with special emphasis on the needs of students. Each article  provides a background or history of the topic, describes relevant  applications, overviews present and future trends, and lists seminal  and current references. To allow for variety in exposition, the  authors were instructed to present their material from both research  and applied perspectives. \u003cbr\u003e  The \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e has been organized into specific topics that  collectively encompass the foundations, applications, and emerging  elements of this ever-changing field. We also wanted to establish the  close associations that OR\/MS has maintained with other scientific  endeavors, with special emphasis on its symbiotic relationships to  computer science, information processing, and mathematics. Based on  our broad view of OR\/MS, we commissioned 228 major expository articles  and complemented them by numerous entries: descriptions, discussions,  definitions, and abbreviations. The connections between topics are  highlighted by an entry's final `See' statement, as appropriate. Each  topical article provides a background or history of the topic,  describes relevant applications, overviews present and future trends,  and lists seminal and current references. 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