Background: Analysis of (s-1, s) and Order-Up-To Policies -- Background Concepts: An Introduction to the (s-1, s) Policy under Poisson and Compound Poisson Demand -- An Exact Model for a Depot-Base Two Echelon Inventory and Repair System -- Tactical Planning Models for Managing Recoverable Items...

Models -- and Examples -- Uncertainty and Modeling Issues -- Basic Properties -- Basic Properties and Theory -- The Value of Information and the Stochastic Solution -- Solution Methods -- Two-Stage Linear Recourse Problems -- Nonlinear Programming Approaches to Two-Stage Recourse Problems --...

The Linear Programming Problem -- Solving Simple Linear Programs -- The Simplex Method -- Interior-Point Methods -- Duality -- Equivalent Formulations -- Price Mechanism and Sensitivity Analysis -- Transportation and Assignment Problem -- Network Flow Theory.