Systems Engineering & Operations Research (SEOR)

"This book covers emerging OR methodologies beginning with fundamental models and methods such as linear, nonlinear, integer, and dynamic programming, networks, simulation, queuing, inventory, stochastic processes, and decision analysis. It also explores emerging techniques including multiple criteria optimization, meta heuristics, robust optimization, and complexity and large scale networks. Each chapter gives an overview of a particular methodology, illustrates successful applications, and provides references to computer software availability."

"The Operations Research Calculations Handbook is organized by topic and listed in a convenient summary format, allowing readers to have frequently used results at their fingertips. Although based on the manufacturing industry, many of the results are basic to system modeling and can be applied in other areas of operations research and management science. Formulas play a significant role in systems modeling. They allow one to draw general conclusions about system behavior, reveal the underlying system model, and help provide an understanding of system performance."

"This comprehensive OR reference is concise and easy to read. It provides a single volume overview of OR applications in practice. Written by leading authorities in the field, the book covers functional and industry specific areas of OR applications."

"Operations Research and Management Science Handbook combines OR/MS models, methods, and applications into one comprehensive, yet concise volume. Part I of the handbook covers the fundamental OR/MS models and methods. Each chapter gives an overview of a particular OR/MS model, its solution methods and illustrates successful applications. Chapters in Part II of the handbook discuss the OR/MS applications in specific areas including airlines, e-commerce, finance, military, reliability and more."

"The Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering offers full and easy access to a wide range of industrial and systems engineering tools and techniques in a concise format.It introduces new technologies, offers a systems integration approach, and provides coverage of information engineering. Part I delivers a general introduction featuring references to the origin of industrial engineering and its ties to the Industrial Revolution. Parts II and III cover the fundamentals of industrial and systems engineering. Part IV contains chapters on manufacturing and production systems, while part V addresses new technologies. The book concludes with general applications of both industrial and systems engineering."

"Human Performance Modeling in Aviation chronicles the results of modeling NASA-supplied data on two aviation flight deck problems: pilot surface operations taxi errors, and approach and landing with synthetic vision systems."

"Addressing the seemingly intractable systems problems in our society, Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems focuses on the inherent opportunities and difficulties of a systems approach. In the hopes of initiating critical thinking and encouraging a systems response to problems, the book provides pragmatic mechanisms to understand and address co-evolving systems problems and solutions. It uses several contemporary and complex societal issues to illustrate the concepts, methods, and tools of a system as well as the meaning of "togetherness" in a system. Featuring a holistic, nonlinear way of looking at systems, this book helps readers better organize and structure their thinking of systems in order to solve complex, real-world problems."

"This book provides an overview of systems engineering, its important elements, and aspects of management that will lead in the direction of building systems with a greater likelihood of success."