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Industrial Applications of Combinatorial Optimization

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Gang Yu

    1. Department of Management Science & Information Systems, and the Center for Management of Operations and Logistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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Part of the book series: Applied Optimization (APOP, volume 16)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Moving Toward an Integrated Decision Support System for Manpower Planning at Continental Airlines: Optimization of Pilot Training Assignments

    • Gang Yu, Stacy Dugan, Mike Argüello
    Pages 1-24

  3. Shortcomings of MRP II and a New Planning Meta—Method

    • Alf Kimms, Andreas Drexl
    Pages 25-43

  4. The Development, Implementation and use of a Package to Facilitate Planning and Production Scheduling in a Tobacco Processing Plant

    • Miles G. Nicholls
    Pages 44-71

  5. Stability Radius of an Optimal Schedule: A Survey and Recent Developments

    • Yuri N. Sotskov, Vyacheslav S. Tanaev, Frank Werner
    Pages 72-108

  6. Scheduling Jobs with Sequence Dependent Setups on Coupled Lines

    • E. C. Sewell, J. C. Tan
    Pages 109-124

  7. Optimizing the Radial Component Insertion Operations on PCBs

    • Soo Y. Chang, Hark-Chin Hwang, Katta G. Murty
    Pages 125-141

  8. Combinatorial Optimization in a Cattle Yard: Feed Distribution, Vehicle Scheduling, Lot Sizing, and Dynamic Pen Assignment

    • Moshe Dror, Janny M. Y. Leung
    Pages 142-171

  9. Optimizing a Retail Promotional Calendar by Mixed Integer, Linear Programming

    • Stephen A. Smith
    Pages 172-185

  10. An Implementation of a System Using Heuristics to Support Decisions about Shop Floor Setup Changes

    • Rahul Dè
    Pages 186-211

  11. Integrative Population Analysis for Better Solutions to Large-Scale Mathematical Programs

    • Fred Glover, John Mulvey, Dawei Bai, Michael T. Tapia
    Pages 212-239

  12. Lagrangian Relaxation for Flow Shop Scheduling

    • George G. Polak
    Pages 240-255

  13. A Heuristic for Vehicle Routing and Manpower Planning

    • George A. Bohoris, Jane M. Thomas
    Pages 256-271

  14. Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rail Car Unloading Area

    • Jonathan F. Bard
    Pages 272-300

  15. A Study of the Space Shuttle Scheduling Problem

    • Shaukat A. Brah, John L. Hunsucker
    Pages 301-315

  16. Models and Implementation Techniques for Local Access Telecommunication Network Design

    • Geon Cho, Dong X. Shaw
    Pages 316-344

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 345-349
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Industries rely more and more on advanced technology. Accelerated computer evolution makes large-scale computation practical. Many enterprises are be­ ginning to benefit from more efficient allocation of resources and more effective planning, scheduling, manufacturing, and distribution by adopting state-of-the­ art decision support systems. Academics increasingly emphasize application­ driven research. All these forces have moved optimization from a pure class­ room and textbook terminology to an accepted tool in today's business world. This book chronicles and describes applications of combinatorial optimization in industry. A wide range of applications is included: manpower planning • production planning • job sequencing and scheduling • manufacturing layout design • facility planning • vehicle scheduling and routing • retail seasonal planning • I! space shuttle scheduling, and telecommunication network design . • The applications covered in this book comprise a representative set of industry sectors including electronics, airlines, manufacturing, tobacco, retail, telecom­ munication, defense, and livestock. These examples should encourage opera­ tions researchers and applied mathematicians by pointing out how the impor­ tance and practicality of optimization is starting to be realized by the manage­ ment of various organizations and how some pioneering developments in this field are beginning to bear fruit.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management Science & Information Systems, and the Center for Management of Operations and Logistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Gang Yu

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