Decision Analysis, Location Models, and Scheduling Problems

A unified treatment of decision analysis, location theory and scheduling, with topics ranging from multicriteria decision-making, multiattribute utility theory, classical decision analysis and game theory, to location and layout planning, and to project and machine scheduling. While the emphasis of the book is on models and applications, the most important methods and algorithms, exact as well as heuristic, are described in detail and illustrated by numerical examples. The formulations and the discussion of a large variety of models provides insight into their structures, allowing the user to better evaluate the solutions to the problems.

Contains three important fields in one volume: decision analysis, location theory and scheduling Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

The book presents a unified treatment of decision analysis, location theory and scheduling, with topics ranging from multicriteria decision-making, multiattribute utility theory, classical decision analysis and game theory, to location and layout planning, and to project and machine scheduling. While the emphasis of the book is on models and applications, the most important methods and algorithms, exact as well as heuristic, are described in detail and illustrated by numerical examples. The formulations and the discussion of a large variety of models provide insight into their structures, allowing the user to better evaluate the solutions to the problems.

Inhalt
Notation.- I: Analysis of Decision Making.- 1 Multicriteria Decision Making.- 2 Games Against Nature.- 3 Game Theory.- II: Location and Layout Decisions.- 1 Fundamentals of Location and Layout Problems.- 2 Location Models on Networks.- 3 Continuous Location Models.- 4 Other Location Models.- 5 Layout Models.- III: Project Scheduling.- 1 Unconstrained Time Project Scheduling.- 2 Project Scheduling with Resource Constraints.- IV: Machine Scheduling Models.- 1 Fundamentals of Machine Scheduling.- 2 Single Machine Scheduling.- 3 Parallel Machine Models.- 4 Dedicated Machine and Resource-Constrained Models.- References.