Perspectives in Operations Research

by Alt, Frank B.; Fu, Michael C.; Golden, Bruce L.

• ISBN13: 9780387399331
• ISBN10: 038739933X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The book is an edited volume from leading research scholars in the field of Operations Research, focusing on future perspectives in OR. Each of the contributors offers their perspective looking forward to the further development of the field. The theme will provide pivotal interest in the book because of prominence of the contributors and Saul Gass' position as one of the founders of OR and his involvement in writing about the history of OR. The history of operations research is of considerable interest and this book takes a pivotal perspective of OR's history by examining current trends and the future of the field.

Table of Contents

Reflections on Saul Gass' influence	p. 19
Four score years of Saul I. Gass : portrait of an OR professional	p. 23
In the beginning : Saul Gass and other pioneers	p. 73
Learning from the master : Saul Gass, linear programming and the OR profession	p. 77
Looking backwards, looking forwards : reflections on definitions of operations research by Morse and Kimball	p. 99
Ben Franklin : America's first operations researcher	p. 115
Good management, the missing XYZ variables of OR texts	p. 123
The operations research profession : westward, look, the land is bright	p. 135
Choosing a combinatorial auction design : an illustrated example	p. 153
Label-correcting shortest path algorithms revisited	p. 179
The ubiquitous farkas lemma	p. 199
Parametric cardinality probing in set partitioning	p. 211
A counting problem in linear programming	p. 223
Towards exposing the applicability of Gass & Saaty's parametric programming procedure	p. 235
The noisy euclidean traveling salesman problem : a computational analysis	p. 247
The close enough traveling salesman problem : a discussion of several heuristics	p. 271
Twinless strongly connected components	p. 285
EOQ rides again!	p. 307
Federal express sort facility employee scheduling problem	p. 333
Sensitivity analysis in Monte Carlo simulation of stochastic activity networks	p. 351
The EM algorithm, its randomized implementation and global optimization : some challenges and opportunities for operations research	p. 367
Recovering circles and spheres from point data	p. 393
Why the New York yankees signed Johnny Damon	p. 415
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