Risk and Optimization in an Uncertain World / John J. Hasenbein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasenbein, John J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operations research--Congresses.

Operations research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Hanover : INFORMS, 2010.

Summary:

Annotation This volume is a collection designed to address the debates on risk and optimization in an uncertain world. It contains two chapters on the quantification of risk, three on extending decision-making methodology, three on optimization under uncertainty, two on optimizing stochastic systems, and one on procurement auctions.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Mathematical Approaches to Infectious Disease Prediction and Control

Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Lauren Ancel Meyers

Risk Applications in Commercial Nuclear Power

Ernie Kee, Elmira Popova

Constructing Multiattribute Utility Functions for Decision Analysis

Ali E. Abbas

The Trojan Horse of Time-Risk Preference Representations

Matthew J. Sobel

The Separation, and Separation-Deviation Methodology for Group Decision Making and Aggregate Ranking

Dorit S. Hochbaum

Patrick Jaillet, Michael R. Wagner

Robust Vehicle Routing

Fernando Ordóñez

Provably Near-Optimal Approximation Algorithms for Operations Management Models

Retsef Levi

Optimization via Simulation Over Discrete Decision Variables

Barry L. Nelson

Dynamic Optimization with Applications to Dynamic Rate Queues

Robert C. Hampshire, William A. Massey

Procurement Auctions

Damian R. Beil

Contributing Authors.

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