Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (Hardcover, 3, 2013)

Many of the 2nd edition articles have been updated by the original authors, with a few being totally rewritten by new authors. In addition, the following completely new articles have been added, each of which either describes a new topic or replaces a previous short entry: Agent-Based Simulation Air Traffic Management Approximate Dynamic Programming Business Intelligence Closed-loop Supply Chains Combinatorial Auction Theory Community OR Complementarity Applications Computational Biology Conditional Value at Risk Convex Optimization Critical Systems Thinking Data Warehousing Decision Analysis Practice Deep Uncertainty Differential Games Disaster Management Disease Prevention, Detection, and Treatment Financial Engineering Flexible Manufacturing Systems Fuzzy Sets, Systems, and Applications Global Optimization Health Care Management Health Care Strategic Decision Making Heuristics Hit and Run Methods Influence Diagrams Knowledge Management Lagrangian Relaxation Markov Chain Monte Carlo Metaheuristics Music Open Source Software (and COIN-OR) Operational Research Society Petroleum Refining Quadratic Assignment Problem Rare Event Simulation Regenerative Simulation Response Surface Methodology Revenue Management Sample Average Approximation Sensitivity Analysis Service Science Simulated Annealing Societal Complexity Statistical Ranking and Selection Stochastic Approximation Stochastic Input Model Selection