Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science

Use of Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials in RLT.
 
Systems in Series.
 
Parallel Configurations.
 
Spanning trees.
 
Recycling.
 
Split Cuts.
 
Retrial Queues.
 
Horse Racing.
 
MACBETH (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique).
 
Dual simplex.
 
History of CP.
 
Procurement Contracts.
 
MRP.
 
Just in Time.
 
Push and Pull Production.
 
MULTIVARIATE INPUT MODELING.
 
Operational Research Society.
 
The M/G/1 Queue.
 
Drama Theory.
 
Hyper-heuristics.
 
Antithetic Variates.
 
Music.
 
Edgeworth market games.
 
Operational Risk.
 
Queueing Notation.
 
Environmental impact.
 
Why variance is not risk.
 
Conjugate gradient methods.
 
Birth-and-Death Processes.
 
Surgery Planning and Scheduling.
 
Large-scale linear models.
 
Standby Systems.
 
Billiards/Pool.
 
AXIOMATIC MEASURES OF RISK AND RISK-VALUE MODELS.
 
Age Replacement Policies.
 
PASTA and Related Results.
 
Collaborative Procurement.
 
LP projection algorithms.
 
R&D risk management.
 
Bioterrorism.
 
Vendor-Managed Inventory.
 
Gomory Cuts.
 
Travel demand modeling.
 
System Availability.
 
Infinite horizon problems.
 
Trust.
 
Bayesian Network Classifiers.
 
Integer Programming Duality.
 
Queueing Disciplines.
 
Stakeholder paeticipation.
 
Models and Basic Properties.
 
Parametric LP analysis.
 
Operations Research and Golfing.
 
Ice Hockey.
 
Clustering.
 
Finite-Population Models.
 
Batch Arrivals and Service.
 
Optimal Monitoring Strategies.
 
Basic Polyhedral Theory.
 
Operations Research and Art.
 
Managing portfolios of risks.
 
Measures of risk

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