Title	Industrial Applications of Combinatorial Optimization [electronic resource] / edited by Gang Yu
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2876-7
Descript	XVIII, 350 p. online resource

Industries rely more and more on advanced technology. Accelerated computer evolution makes large-scale computation practical. Many enterprises are beยญ ginning to benefit from more efficient allocation of resources and more effective planning, scheduling, manufacturing, and distribution by adopting state-of-theยญ art decision support systems. Academics increasingly emphasize applicationยญ driven research. All these forces have moved optimization from a pure classยญ 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 โข production planning โข job sequencing and scheduling โข manufacturing layout design โข facility planning โข vehicle scheduling and routing โข retail seasonal planning โข I! space shuttle scheduling, and telecommunication network design . โข The applications covered in this book comprise a representative set of industry sectors including electronics, airlines, manufacturing, tobacco, retail, telecomยญ munication, defense, and livestock. These examples should encourage operaยญ tions researchers and applied mathematicians by pointing out how the imporยญ tance and practicality of optimization is starting to be realized by the manageยญ ment of various organizations and how some pioneering developments in this field are beginning to bear fruit

1 Moving Toward an Integrated Decision Support System for Manpower Planning at Continental Airlines: Optimization of Pilot Training Assignments -- 2 Shortcomings of Mrp II and a New Planning MetaโMethod -- 3 The Development, Implementation and Use of a Package to Facilitate Planning and Production Scheduling in a Tobacco Processing Plant -- 4 Stability Radius of an Optimal Schedule: a Survey and Recent Developments -- 5 Scheduling Jobs with Sequence Dependent Setups on Coupled Lines -- 6 Optimizing the Radial Component Insertion Operations on Pcbs -- 7 Combinatorial Optimization in a Cattle Yard: Feed Distribution, Vehicle Scheduling, Lot Sizing, and Dynamic Pen Assignment -- 8 Optimizing a Retail Promotional Calendar by Mixed Integer, Linear Programming -- 9 An Implementation of a System Using Heuristics to Support Decisions About Shop Floor Setup Changes -- 10 Integrative Population Analysis for Better Solutions to Large-Scale Mathematical Programs -- 11 Lagrangian Relaxation for Flow Shop Scheduling -- 12 A Heuristic for Vehicle Routing and Manpower Planning -- 13 Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rail Car Unloading Area -- 14 A Study of the Space Shuttle Scheduling Problem -- 15 Models and Implementation Techniques for Local Access Telecommunication Network Design -- Appendix A Pseudo-Code of Algorithm 2

1. Business
2. Production management
3. Operations research
4. Decision making
5. Mathematical models
6. Mathematical optimization
7. Management science
8. Business and Management
9. Operation Research/Decision Theory
10. Operations Management
11. Operations Research
12. Management Science
13. Optimization
14. Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics