Robust Discrete Optimization and Its Applications

by Panos Kouvelis and Gang Yu

This book deals with decision making in environments of significant data un- certainty, with particular emphasis on operations and production management applications. For such environments, we suggest the use of the robustness ap- proach to decision making, which assumes inadequate knowledge of the decision maker about the random state of nature and develops a decision that hedges against the worst contingency that may arise. The main motivating factors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441947647
• ISBN13: 9781441947642
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"