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Operational Research in Industry

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Tito A. Ciriani

    1. Pisa, Italy

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  2. Stefano Gliozzi

    1. Roma, Italy

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  3. Ellis L. Johnson

    1. School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
      Atlanta, USA

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  4. Roberto Tadei

    1. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

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Operational Research in Industry brings together the experience of an international group of practising OR consultants, researchers and academics in the applications of OR in Industry. The book gives practical examples of cross-industry management, covers many different industrial sectors and includes a variety of operations research tools including modelling, optimization and data mining.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Modeling Tools for Airline-crew Scheduling and Fleet-assignment Problems

    • Ellis L. Johnson, Tina L. Shaw, Rebecca L. Ho
    Pages 1-24

  3. Implementation of Parallel Branch-and-bound Algorithms in XPRESS-MP

    • Richard S. Laundy
    Pages 25-41

  4. Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Applications

    • Josef Kallrath
    Pages 42-76

  5. Lube Production Scheduling Model at the AGIP-Petroli’s Livorno Refinery

    • Sergio Barbariol, Mauro Lusetti, Marco Mantilli, Mauro Scarioni
    Pages 77-90

  6. Practical Modeling

    • Larry Haverly
    Pages 91-101

  7. A Continuous-time Representation for Multi-stage Factory Design and Scheduling

    • Turaj Tahmassebi
    Pages 102-134

  8. Solving Airline-fleet Scheduling Problems with Mixed-integer Programming

    • Uwe H. Suhl, Leena M. Suhl
    Pages 135-156

  9. Demand Adaptive Systems: Some Proposals on Flexible Transit1

    • Federico Malucelli, Maddalena Nonato, Stefano Pallottino
    Pages 157-182

  10. A Scheduling Prototype for Factory Automation: Matching OR Methodologies to Actual Industrial Needs

    • Roberto Tadei, Federico Della Croce, Salvatore Pucci
    Pages 183-198

  11. Supply-chain Production Planning

    • Javad Ahmadi, Robert Benson, Daniel Supernaw-Issen
    Pages 199-231

  12. Cargo Analytical Integration in Space Engineering: A Three-dimensional Packing Model

    • Giorgio Fasano
    Pages 232-246

  13. Horizontal Marketing: Optimized One-to-one Marketing1

    • Michael P. Haydock, Eric Bibelnieks
    Pages 247-267

  14. The Early Classification Problem: Successive LP for Machine Learning

    • Tito A. Ciriani, Stefano Gliozzi, Marina Russo
    Pages 268-281

  15. Short-term Operation of an Electric-power System

    • Thomas Lekane, Jacques Gheury
    Pages 282-297

  16. The Unit Commitment Problem

    • Samer Takriti
    Pages 298-321

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 322-330
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Pisa, Italy

    Tito A. Ciriani

  • Roma, Italy

    Stefano Gliozzi

  • School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ellis L. Johnson

  • Atlanta, USA

    Ellis L. Johnson

  • Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Roberto Tadei

About the editors

R.L. HO, E.L. JOHNSON AND T.L. SHAW Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA UWE H. SUHL AND LEENA M. SUHL Freie Universität, Berlin and Universität-GH Paderborn (Germany) FEDERICO MALUCELLI, MADDALENA NONATO AND STEFANO PALLOTTINOIstituto di Elettronica, Università di Perugia (Italy) RICHARD LAUNDY DASH Associates (Royal Leamington Spa, UK) MICHAEL P. HAYDOCK AND ERIC BIBELNIEKS IBM, Global Business Intelligence Solutions (Minneapoli, Minnesota, USA) TITO A. CIRIANI, STEFANO GLIOZZI AND MARINA RUSSO IBM, Global Business Intelligence Solutions, Rome and Pisa (Italy) JOSEF KALLRATH BASF-AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and University of Florida (Gainesville, USA) SERGIO BARBARIOL, MAURO LUSETTI, MARCO MANTILLI AND MAURO SCARIONI AGIP Petroli, Raffineria di Livorno and IBM Italia, Milan (Italy) LARRY HAVERLY Haverly Systems Inc. (Ventura, California, USA) TURAJ TAHMASSEBI Unilever Research (Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral, UK) ROBERTO TADEI, FEDERICO DELLA CROCE AND SALVATORE PUCCI Politecnico di Torino and MRP Consulting (Torino, Italy) JAVAD AHMADI, ROBERT BENSON AND DANIEL SUPERNAW-ISSEN Advanced Micro Devices (Austin, Texas, USA) GIORGIO FASANO Alenia Aerospazio, Space Division, Turin Plant (Italy) JACQUES GHEURY AND THOMAS LEKANE Tractebel energy engineering (Brussels, Belgium) SAMER TAKRITI IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY, USA).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operational Research in Industry

  • Editors: Tito A. Ciriani, Stefano Gliozzi, Ellis L. Johnson, Roberto Tadei

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372924

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-74548-9Published: 13 July 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41051-4Published: 13 July 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37292-4Published: 12 July 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 330

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Mathematics, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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