This book presents an overview of the risks involved in modern electricity production, delivery, and trading. Coverage includes energy markets, optimal decisions in managing energy systems, pricing, and political and other long term risks.

This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of manufacturing as facilities planning, transportation and material handling systems, production scheduling, logistics, supply chain management and productivity and quality models.

This book address application domains including inpatient and outpatient services, public health networks, supply chain management, and resource constrained settings in developing countries. It offers examples and case studies across the globe.

This book presents the state of the art in the application of operations research models to preventing terrorist attacks, planning and preparing for emergencies and responding to and recovering from disasters. Covers preparedness, relief efforts and more.

This handbook provides sophisticated models for the study and analysis of activities involving the transportation of hazardous materials: risk assessment, shipment and route planning, decisions on location and emergency planning for terrorist attacks.

This book explores deterministic and stochastic EOQ-model based problems and applications, presenting technical analyses of single-echelon EOQ model based inventory problems, and applications of the EOQ model for multi-echelon supply chain inventory analysis.

This book offers complete coverage of logistics, examining modes, general issues, logistics in specific regions, free-trade zones, innovations in international logistics, case studies and a look at the future.

The 'newsvendor problem' is a classic teaser in stochastic inventory control, widely used to analyze supply chains in seasonal product industries. This is the first handbook devoted to the topic, presenting basic models and numerous practical applications.

This edited edition collates and communicates the latest thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services, thus providing care when and where it is needed most--through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems.

Focusing on extensively used Data Envelopment Analysis topics, this volume aims to both describe the state of the field and extend the frontier of DEA research. New chapters include DEA models for DMUs, network DEA, models for supply chain operations and applications, and new developments.