Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science Book

Among the topics treated in the 2nd edition that will be revisited in the 3rd edition are:

Analytic Network Process;

Call Centers;

Certainty Equivalence;

Comb. Optimization by Simulated CE;

Computational Organization;

Constraint Programming;

Data Mining;

Degeneracy Graphs;

Economic Order Q Extensions;

Educational Issues in B-Schools;

Electronic Commerce;

Financial Markets;

Global Climate Change;

Hidden Markov Models;

History of Early British OR;

Implementation for Public Sector;

Info Tech Benefits;

Interactive Multi-Objective Math. Programming;

Knapsacks with Nonlinearities;

Little's Law in Distribution Form;

Military Ops Other than War;

Multivariate Quality Control;

Perturbation Analysis;

Simulation Metamodeling;

Simulation Optimization;

Supply Chain Management;

Theory of Constraints;

Timetabling

New entry topics for the 3rd edition, include the following:

Yield Management; Flexible Queuing Systems; Service Mangement; Local Search; Tolerance Sensitivity Analysis; Influence diagrams; Knowledge Management; Strategy and policy making; School districting; Computational Biology; Lagrangian Relaxation; Closed-loop supply chain; Sensitivity Analysis; Bioinformatics; Rendevous Search; Ant Search Algorithms; Agriculture and forestry resources