Editors:
- Presents a broad range of case studies suitable for modeling courses for OR students
- Additional materials posted on the book's Springer.com webpage to allow students to solve problems using the case studies
- Contributing authors among the most prominent in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 212)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This textbook is comprised of detailed case studies covering challenging real world applications of OR techniques. Among the overall goals of the book is to provide readers with descriptions of the history and other background information on a variety of industries, service or other organizations in which decision making is an important component of their daily operations. The book considers all methods of optimum decision making in order to improve performances. It also compares possible solutions obtained by different approaches, concluding with a recommendation of the best among them for implementation. By exposing students to a variety of applications in a variety of areas and explaining how they can be modeled and solved, the book helps students develop the skills needed for modeling and solving problems that they may face in the workplace.
Each chapter of "Case Studies in Operations Research: Applications of Optimal Decision Making" also includes additionaldata provided on the book’s website on Springer.com. These files contain a brief description of the area of application, the problem and the required outputs. Also provided are links to access all the data in the problem. Finally there are project exercises for students to practice what they have learnt in the chapter, which can also be used by instructors as project assignments in their courses.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Katta G. Murty
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Case Studies in Operations Research
Book Subtitle: Applications of Optimal Decision Making
Editors: Katta G. Murty
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1006-9Published: 09 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4355-5Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1007-6Published: 08 December 2014
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 543
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science