A century of the EOQ / Matthew J. Drake and Kathryn A. Marley -- Multi-period lot-sizing with stationary demand: extension to forecast horizons / Suresh Chand and Suresh Sethi -- EOQ models with supply disruptions / Zümbül Atan and Lawrence V. Snyder -- Existence of EOQ and its evaluation:...

This book is focused on the impact of ocean transport logistics on global supply chains. It is the first book solely dedicated to the topic, linking the interaction of parties along this chain, including shippers, terminal operators and line carriers. While ocean container transport logistics...

Problem and Preliminaries -- Management Issues in the Cloud-ICT Age -- Discrete Science and Knowledge Form -- Basic Method for Higher Management -- Traffic Accounting Method -- Progressive Control Method -- Developments for Higher Management -- Performance System for Real-Time Management --...

Robustification of an on-line EM algorithm for modelling asset prices within an HMM -- Stochastic volatility or stochastic central tendency: evidence from a hidden Markov model of the short-term interest rate -- An econometric model of the term structure of interest rates under regime-switching...

Introduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- DEA in the Public Sector -- Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian Schools -- Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian School -- Productivity Measurement.

Section I: Methods -- Chapter 1 Evaluation of Performance in Health Care -- Chapter 2 Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- Chapter 3 Returns To Scale Models -- Chapter 4 Weight Restricted (Multiplier) Models -- Chapter 5 Non-Oriented and Measure Specific Models --...

Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

This handbook serves as a complement to the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (eds, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, and J, Zhu, 2011, Springer) in an effort to extend the frontier of DEA research. It provides a comprehensive source for the state-of-the art DEA modeling on internal structures and...

This Fourth Edition introduces the latest theory and applications in optimization. It emphasizes constrained optimization, beginning with a substantial treatment of linear programming and then proceeding to convex analysis, network flows, integer programming, quadratic programming, and convex...