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Quantitative planning and control : essays in honor of William Wager Cooper on the occasion of his 65th birthday /
Quantitative Planning and Control: Essays in Honor of William Wager Cooper on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday features a collection of papers prepared by students and associates of William Wager Cooper to honor him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. The book centers on the theme of Quant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1979.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Inside Front Cover; Copyright; List of Contributors; Preface; A Yankee from Chicago; Adventures in Invention; The Great Teacher; Part I: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING AND DECISION MODELS; Chapter 1: Gradient States for Some Dualities with the C2 Extremal Principle; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE C2EXTREMAL PRINCIPLE; 2 GRADIENT CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME CONVEX FUNCTION INFIMA; 3 CONCLUSION; Chapter 2: Branch and Round: An Enumerative Algorithm for Integer Programs; 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY; 2 THE RUDIMENTARY BRANCH AND ROUND ALGORITHM.
- 3 THE LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM14 MULTIPLE OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; 5 A VARIATION OF THE RUDIMENTARY ALGORITHM: CUTS, SEQUENTIAL BRANCHING, AND PARTITIONING; 6 COMMENTS; Chapter 3: A Minimax Procedure for a Class of Stochastic Programs; Publisher Summary; 1 SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS; 2 TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; 3 SIMPLE RECOURSE MODEL WITH NONLINEAR PENALTY FUNCTIONS; 4 AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE; Chapter 4: A Linguistic Model for 3-D Constructions; Publisher Summary; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 OVERVIEW AND INITIAL DEFINITIONS; 3 PRIMITIVES.
- 4 REFERENCE POINTS AND P-FUNCTIONS5 TRANSFORMING FUNCTIONS; 6 SCULPTING FUNCTIONS; 7 COMPOSITION OPERATORS; 8 ITERATIONS; 9 CONCLUDING REMARKS; Chapter 5: Decision-Making with Multiple Objectives-Some Analytic Approaches; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION 1 A MYTH OF MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; 2 THE DECISION FRAMEWORK; 3 EXPLICITLY DEFINED CONSTRAINTS; 4 CHOOSING THE BEST OF A SET OF ALTERNATIVES; 5 CONCLUSION; Part II: ECONOMIC AND FIRM GROWTH; Chapter 6: Economic Development on a Distant Planet; Publisher Summary.
- Chapter 7: A Linear Programming Approach to Agricultural Land Use Policy in IndiaPublisher Summary; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM; 3 EXTENSIONS; 4 COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; Chapter 8: Time Preference, Firm Growth, and Programming Models; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; 1 A SIMPLE ONE PERIOD MODEL; 2 GROWTH OF THE FIRM; 3 SUMMARY; Chapter 9: Inflation and the Capital Budgeting Decision; Publisher Summary; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 SOME BASIC RELATIONS; 3 THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON DEMAND; 4 THE RATE OF INTEREST; 5 THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON COSTS.
- 6 SOME OTHER EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON THE CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION7 CONCLUSIONS; Part III: MANPOWER PLANNING AND DESIGN; Chapter 10: A Network Transshipment Model for Manpower Planning and Design; Publisher Summary; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE MODEL; 3 AN EXAMPLE; 4 DUAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; 5 EFFECTIVENESS VERSUS COST TRADEOFF ANALYSIS; 6 CAREER ANALYSIS; 7 CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 11: A Study of Alternative Relaxation Approaches for a Manpower Planning Problem; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PROBLEM RELAXATION; 3 RELAXATIONS AND PRIMAL STRATEGIES; 4 ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TESTED.