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.
| ISBN: | 9780792350736 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 1998 |
| Author: | Gang Yu |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 347 pages |
| Series: | Applied Optimization |
| Genres: |
Operational research Management decision making Management of specific areas Mathematical modelling Maths for engineers Optimization |