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A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science

The Past and the Future

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. ManMohan S. Sodhi

    1. Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Christopher S. Tang

    1. Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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  • The handbook is useful and timely and of considerable interest
  • Important modern topics are covered in the book and of interest to an audience of students, academics, and practitioners in the fields of OR/MS, Computer Science, Engineering, and Management
  • Professor Sodhi is well-known and he writes a regular column for OR/MS Today on "Evolving Research Directions in OR/MS"
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 148)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science

    • ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang
    Pages 1-8

  4. A Long View of the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Challenges in Adding a Stochastic Programming/Scenario Planning Capability to a General Purpose Optimization Modeling System

      • Mustafa Atlihan, Kevin Cunningham, Gautier Laude, Linus Schrage
      Pages 117-135

    3. Advances in Business Analytics at HP Laboratories

      • Business Optimization Lab, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard
      Pages 137-173

    4. Global Trade Process and Supply Chain Management

      • Hau L. Lee
      Pages 175-193

    5. Sustainable Globally Integrated Enterprise (GIE)

      • Grace Lin, Ko-Yang Wang
      Pages 195-217

    6. Cyberinfrastructure and Optimization

      • Robert Fourer
      Pages 219-229

    7. Perspectives on Health-Care Resource Management Problems

      • Jonathan Turner, Sanjay Mehrotra, Mark S. Daskin
      Pages 231-247

    8. Optimizing Happiness

      • Manel Baucells, Rakesh K. Sarin
      Pages 249-273

    9. Conclusion: A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science

      • ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang
      Pages 275-297
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About this book

From the Foreword by Marshall Fisher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: As generation of academics and practitioners follows generation, it is worthwhile to compile long views of the research and practice in the past to shed light on research and practice going forward. This collection of peer-reviewed articles is intended to provide such a long view. This book contains a collection of chapters written by leading scholars/practitioners who have continued their efforts in developing and/or implementing innovative OR/MS tools for solving real world problems. In this book, the contributors share their perspectives about the past, present and future of OR/MS theoretical development, solution tools, modeling approaches, and applications. Specifically, this book collects chapters that offer insights about the following topics: • Survey articles taking a long view over the past two or more decades to arrive at the present state of the art while outlining ideas for future research. Surveys focus on use of a particular OR/MS approach, e.g., mathematical programming (LP, MILP, etc.) and solution methods for particular family of application, e.g., distribution system design, distribution planning system, health care. • Autobiographical or biographical accounts of how particular inventions (e.g., Structured Modeling) were made. These could include personal experiences in early development of OR/MS and an overview of what has happened since. • Development of OR/MS mathematical tools (e.g., stochastic programming, optimization theory). • Development of OR/MS in a particular industry sector such as global supply chain management. • Modeling systems for OR/MS and their development over time as well as speculation on future development (e.g., LINDO, LINGO, and What’sBest!) • New applications of OR/MS models (e.g., happiness) The target audience of this book is young researchers, graduate/advanced undergraduate students from OR/MS and related fields likecomputer science, engineering, and management as well as practitioners who want to understand how OR/MS modeling came about over the past few decades and what research topics or modeling approaches they could pursue in research or application.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

    ManMohan S. Sodhi

  • Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Christopher S. Tang

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