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Now Published: Applications of Management Science, Volume 16

Series: Applications of Management Science, v. 16

Editors: Kenneth D. Lawrence and Gary Kleinman

Publication date: 05 November 2013

ISBN: 9781781909560

This book focuses on the application of management science to multiple criteria decision making, data envelopment analysis, and managerial applications. Section A focuses on multiple criteria applications in college course scheduling, offshore wind farms, services in a hospital, portfolio optimization, and balancing a sequence dependent disassembly line. Section B focuses on data envelopment analysis applications of productivity in on-line stores, research libraries, and advertising investment plans. Section C focuses on managerial applications on the effects of aging on food consumption, costs of renewable warrantees, pricing models with group buying, and the improvement of patient flow. This volume will be valuable to those interested in multiple criteria applications, data envelopment analysis applications, and other managerial applications of management science.

Sample chapters

A Multiple Objective Approach to Assigning Classes for an Executive MBA Program
Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup, Kevin J. Boyle, Alyssa Beck

Using DEA to Select the Best Advertising Investment Plan
Feng Yang, Qianqian Yuan, Zhimin Huang, Liang Liang

Using Process Capability Analysis and Simulation to Improve Patient Flow
Kellie B. Keeling, Evelyn Brown, John F. Kros

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