Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications - Essentials of Practical Management Science
1st Edition         
By
S. Christian Albright, Indiana University
Wayne Winston, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Chris Albright and Wayne Winston have brought their hallmark teach-by-example approach to the undergraduate spreadsheet modelling course. Renowned for their other successful texts in operations research/management science, Winston and Albright successfully show how spreadsheets are used in real life to model and analyse real business problems. By modelling problems using spreadsheets from the outset, Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications prepares future managers for the types of problems they will encounter on the job. Real cases throughout the text further cement this book's status as the most relevant of its kind on the market. This text is also accompanied by Palisade Corporation's professional spreadsheet add-ins, DecisionTools® Suite.

Excel solutions are available to qualified instructors for all of the problems. These are accompanied by “shells” of all of the solutions that get students started. In addition, a generic grading macro is available.

Duxbury Press
Paper Bound, ISBN 0534380328, April 2004, 600 pages, 8 X 10  USD 93.95
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Handbook of Human Systems Integration
Edited by
Harold R. Booher

Human systems integration (HIS) is rapidl y emerging as a new discipline designed to migrate business and engineering cultures toward a more people-technology orientation. Over the past decade, the United States and foreign governments have developed a wide range of tools, techniques and technologies aimed at integrating human factors into engineering systems in order to utilize the significant cost and performance benefits. In order for this new discipline to be effective, a cultural shift must be initiated among organizational leaders.

Handbook of Human Systems Integration offers the principles and methods that can be employed to integrate people, technology and organization with a common objective toward designing, developing and operating systems effectively and efficiently. Addressing both the public and commercial process as they interface with systems engineering processes, this guide emphasises the importance of management and organization concepts, as well as the technical uniqueness of HIS. Incorporating contributions from more than 90 technical advisors and reviewers from government, industry and academia, the book also includes information provided by the US Department of Defense, the US Federal Aviation Administration and the US National Academy of Sciences.

The book will be of particular interest to HIS practitioners, systems engineers and
 managers, as well as government and industry decision-makers who must weigh the recommendations of all multidisciplines contributing to systems performance, safety and costs in order to reach sound systems acquisitions decisions.

John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover, ISBN: 0-471-02053-2, June 2003, 964 pages, USD 125.00
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Fuzzy Logic in Management             
By
Christer Carlsson, IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Mario Fedrizzi, Dept. of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Italy     
Robert Fullér, Dept. of Operations Research, Eőtvős Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Kluwer Book Series:  International Series in Operations Research and Management Science (Volume 66)

Fuzzy Logic In Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management. This explicit theme is developed through the book. 

Implicitly the book develops themes that successful companies should use to (1) master effectiveness and quality in both the details and the whole, (2) build on and work with flexibility, and (3) support continuous learning in both the organizational and the individual level.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-7695-9, December 2003, 296 pages, EUR 116.00 /  USD 129.00 /  GBP 80.00
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4th Party Cyber Logistics for Air Cargo 
By
Sung-Chi Chu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PR of China
Lawrence C. Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PR of China
Yer Van Hui, City University of Hong Kong, PR of China   
Waiman Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PR of China

Kluwer Book Series:  International Series in Operations Research and Management Science (Volume 73)

4th Party Cyber Logistics For Air Cargo is a technical discussion for researchers and practitioners to understand the issues, models, and future directions of air cargo logistics in the cyber era. This book introduces the many aspects of planning and control of air cargo logistics processes in an e-Business environment. The authors approach this subject matter from the perspective of the logistics service providers. There is tremendous potential for achieving industry-wide collaboration between agents of the air cargo industry via an e-Business community platform. At the same time, there are many intellectually challenging problems regarding the architecture, ownership, decision support environment, and knowledge management of such an e-Business platform.

The authors provide an evolutionary view to conceptualise the developments of websites where e-Commerce activities and e-Business activities co-exist. Four Web eras are detailed, providing an impetus for the development of frameworks of an e-Business platform for air cargo logistics, or e-Platform. The conceptual framework captures the new elements in cyber logistics and what the framework can do for the industry. The 4th party e-Platform from the stakeholders' point of view is illustrated using the ANP and AHP models, highlighting the intrinsic relationships. Technical design issues for an e-Platform are also discussed in order to gain an understanding of how current and emerging technologies will help shape this e-Platform in the Web-based environment, and finally, the e-Platform also brings two new issues into perspective: decision support and knowledge management in cyber logistics.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-7800-5, April 2004,  176 pages, EUR 105.00 /  USD 115.00 /  GBP 73.00, eBook, ISBN 1-4020-7801-3, April 2004, EUR 105.00 /  USD 115.00 /  GBP 73.00
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Multiobjective Optimization: Principles and Case Studies
By
Yann Collette, Faculté des Sciences et de Technologie, LERISS, Université de Paris XII Val-de-Marne
Patrick Siarry, Faculté des Sciences et de Technologie, LERISS, Université de Paris XII Val-de-Marne
 
Springer-Verlag Book Series: Decision Engineering

From whatever domain they come, engineers are faced daily with optimisation problems that require conflicting objectives to be met. This monograph presents several multiobjective optimisation methods accompanied by many analytical examples. Each method or definition is clarified, when possible, with an illustration. Multiobjective Optimization treats not only engineering problems, e.g. in mechanics, but also problems arising in operations research and management. It explains how to choose the most suitable method to solve a given problem and uses three primary application examples: optimisation of the numerical simulation of an industrial process; sizing of a telecommunication network; and decision-aid tools for the sorting of bids.

Springer-Verlag
Hardcover, ISBN 3-540-40182-2    , 1st ed. 2003. Corr 2nd printing, 2004, X, 317 pages, 89.95 USD
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Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis
Edited by
William W. Cooper, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lawrence M. Seiford, Dept. of Industrial & Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Joe Zhu, Dept. of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA

Kluwer Book Series: International Series in Operations Research and Management Science (Volume 71)

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many contexts worldwide. DEA's "data-oriented" approach has been widely used in evaluating the efficiency and productivity of many different kinds of entities engaged in many different kinds of activities in many different contexts. DEA opens up possibilities for use in cases which have been resistant to other approaches because of the complex and often unknown nature of the relationships between their many activities. In addition, DEA is used to provide new insights into activities and entities that have previously been evaluated by other methods.

This Handbook has been developed as a comprehensive reference for researchers, students and practitioners. It reflects the state-of-the-art in Data Envelopment Analysis. It also represents a milestone in the progression of a continuously advancing methodology which has extensive utility. Written by experts - who are the major research contributors to the topics covered - the Handbook is organized in three sections. The first section is a comprehensive examination of the basic DEA models and DEA extensions. The second section consists of a collection of coverages by persons experienced in applications to the areas of banking, education, sports, retailing, health care, etc. The final section is a review of current DEA software technology.

Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Boston, Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-7797-1, March 2004,  608 pages, EUR 154.00 /  USD 169.00 /  GBP 107.00
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The Basic George B. Dantzig
Edited by
Richard W. Cottle, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

George B. Dantzig, widely known as the father of linear programming, has been a major influence in mathematics, operations research and economics. Now professor emeritus at Stanford University, he continues his decades of research on linear programming and related subjects. Dantzig has been awarded eight honorary doctorates, the National Medal of Science and the John von Neumann Theory prize, from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
The 24 chapters of this volume highlight the amazing breadth and enduring influence of Dantzig's research. Short, non-technical summaries at the opening of each part of the book introduce a specific research area and discuss the current significance of Dantzig's work in that field. Among the topics covered are mathematical statistics, the Simplex Method of linear programming, economic modelling, network optimisation and nonlinear programming.
The book also includes a complete bibliography of Dantzig's writings.
Stanford University Press
Cloth, ISBN 0804748349, 2003, 400 pages
Hardcover 49.95 USD
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