The emergence of high performance computers and sophisticated software technology has led to significant advances in the development and application of operations research. In turn, the growing complexity of operations research models has posed an increasing challenge to computational...

Scheduling is a resource allocation problem which exists in virtually every type of organization. Scheduling problems have produced roughly 40 years of research primarily within the OR community. This community has traditionally emphasized mathematical modeling techniques which seek exact...

Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis: Recent Advances and Challenges presents the latest developments in transport simulation, including dynamic network simulation and micro-simulation of people's movement in an urban area. It offers a collection of the major simulation models that...

A Stochastic Program for Interdicting Smuggled Nuclear Material -- Enumerating Near-Min S-T Cuts -- A Decomposition-Based Pseudoapproximation Algorithm for Network Flow Inhibition -- Interdicting Stochastic Networks with Binary Interdiction Effort -- Stochastic Batch-Sizing Problems: Models and...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

I:Business Modelling Fundamentals -- Introduction: Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches -- 1. Gleanings into the Second Best Debate -- 2. Transfer Pricing: From Price Guidelines To Strategic Interaction -- 3. Trading Mechanism Design for Swap Markets -- 4. Production Capacity for...

Basic Principles -- Schema Theory -- No Free Lunch for GAs -- GAs as Markov Processes -- The Dynamical Systems Model -- Statistical Mechanics Approximations -- Predicting GA Performance -- Landscapes -- Summary.