Download or read book Critical Path Analyses Via Chance Constrained and Stochastic Programming written by A. CHARNES and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A question which combines statistics and linear programming considerations was first raised by G. Tintner (Econometrica 28:2, 490-5, April 60). It concerns the distribution of optimum functional values when a linear programming problem has probabilistic constraints. It is proposed to accord a chance constrained programming formulation to this kind of problem and to deal with it in a way that bears on project scheduling of the kind that is usually associated with critical path analysis, for instance, in PERT. The main focus of this paper is on the statistical distributions of the project completion (and subcompletion) times. The question of total time distributions that we deal with can therefore be given a managerial policy flavor by assuming that, ab initio, a management is considering a contract for a certain project. The task sequences are known but the times are not known except in probability. Before contracting for a target completion date--with resulting delay penalties--this management would like to know the likely distribution of total times in order to decide whether to accept an offered contract or else bargain further on the completion dates, penalty rates and progress payments and prices. (Author).
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Download or read book Probabilistic Programming written by S. Vajda and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probabilistic Programming discusses a high-level language known as probabilistic programming. This book consists of three chapters. Chapter I deals with “wait-and-see problems that require waiting until an observation is made on the random elements, while Chapter II contains the analysis of decision problems, particularly of so-called two-stage problems. The last chapter focuses on “chance constraints, such as constraints that are not expected to be always satisfied, but only in a proportion of cases or “with given probabilities. This text specifically deliberates the decision regions for optimality, probability distributions, Kall's Theorem, and two-stage programming under uncertainty. The complete problem, active approach, quantile rules, randomized decisions, and nonzero order rules are also covered. This publication is suitable for developers aiming to define and automatically solve probability models.
Download or read book Critical Path Method written by M. Krishnamoorthy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Fourth International Forum on Decision Sciences written by Xiang Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These conference proceedings focus on the topics of data-driven decision-making, stochastic decision-making, fuzzy decision-making and their applications in real-life problems. Beijing University of Chemical Technology organized IFDS2016, the 4th International Forum on Decision Sciences, with the theme “Data-Driven Decision-Making.” The proceedings collect 84 selected papers presenting cutting-edge modeling and solution methods and include numerous practical case studies, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of decision science, operations research, management science and engineering.
Download or read book Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling written by M.A. Dempster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of an Advanced Study and Re search Institute on Theoretical Approaches to Scheduling Problems. The Institute was held in Durham, England, from July 6 to July 17, 1981. It was attended by 91 participants from fifteen different countries. The format of the Institute was somewhat unusual. The first eight of the ten available days were devoted to an Advanced Study Insti tute, with lectures on the state of the art with respect to deter ministic and stochastic scheduling models and on the interface between these two approaches. The last two days were occupied by an Advanced Research Institute, where recent results and promising directions for future research, especially in the interface area, were discussed. Altogether, 37 lectures were delivered by 24 lecturers. They have all contributed to these proceedings, the first part of which deals with the Advanced Study Institute and the second part of which covers the Advanced Research Institute. Each part is preceded by an introduction, written by the editors. While confessing to a natural bias as organizers, we believe that the Institute has been a rewarding and enjoyable event for everyone concerned. We are very grateful to all those who have contributed to its realization.
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Download or read book Progress in Mathematics written by R. V. Gamkrelidze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains two review articles: "Stochastic Pro gramming" by Vo V. Kolbin, and "Application of Queueing-Theoretic Methods in Operations Research, " by N. Po Buslenko and A. P. Cherenkovo The first article covers almost all aspects of stochastic programming. Many of the results presented in it have not pre viously been surveyed in the Soviet literature and are of interest to both mathematicians and economists. The second article com prises an exhaustive treatise on the present state of the art of the statistical methods of queueing theory and the statistical modeling of queueing systems as applied to the analysis of complex systems. Contents STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING V. V. Kolbin Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 § 1. The Geometry of Stochastic Linear Programming Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 § 2. Chance-Constrained Problems . . . . . . . . . 8 § 3. Rigorous Statement of stochastic Linear Programming Problems . . . . . . . . . . 16 § 4. Game-Theoretic Statement of Stochastic Linear Programming Problems. . . . . . . . 18 § 5. Nonrigorous Statement of SLP Problems . . . 19 § 6. Existence of Domains of Stability of the Solutions of SLP Problems . . . . . . . . . 29 § 7. Stability of a Solution in the Mean. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 § 8. Dual Stochastic Linear Programming Problems. . . 37 § 9. Some Algorithms for the Solution of Stochastic Linear Programming Problems . . . . . . . . . . 40 § 10. Stochastic Nonlinear Programming: Some First Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 § 11. The Two-Stage SNLP Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 § 12. Optimality and Existence of a Plan in Stochastic Nonlinear Programming Problems. 58 Literature Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Download or read book Proceedings of the Princeton Symposium on Mathematical Programming written by Harold William Kuhn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains thirty-three selected general research papers devoted to the theory and application of the mathematics of constrained optimization, including linear programming and its extensions to convex programming, general nonlinear programming, integer programming, and programming under uncertainty. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Chance constrained Programming with 0 1 Or Bounded Decision Variables written by Stanford University. Applied Mathematics and Statistics Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper considers the chance-constrained programming problem where the decision variables can be either bounded and continuous or restricted to be either zero or one, and where some or all of the elements of A, b, and c are random variables that may be statistically dependent. Both exact and approximate solution procedures are presented, where most of these are based on several linear inequalities that permit this problem to be approximated by a number of ordinary (integer or noninteger) linear programming problems. Either zero-order or linear decision rules are allowed for the continuous variables, and a general method of making 'second-stage decisions' with either continuous or 0-1 variables is developed. (Author).
Download or read book Extremal Methods and Systems Analysis written by A. V. Fiacco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers appearing in this Volume were selected from a collec tion of papers presented at the Internationa~ Symposium on Extrema~ Methods and Systems Ana~ysis on the Occasion of Professor A. Charnes' 60th Birthday, at the University of Texas in Austin, 13-15 September 1977. As coeditors, we have followed the normal editorial procedures of scholarly journals. We have obtained invaluable assistance from a number of colleagues who essentially performed the duties of associate editors, coordinating most of the reviews. All papers except those appearing in the Historica~ Perspectives section were refereed by at least two individuals with competency in the respective area. Because of the wide range and diversity of the topics, it would have been im possible for us to make a consistently rational selection of papers without the help of the associate editors and referees. We are indeed grateful to them. The breadth of extremal methods and systems analysis, suggested by the range of topics covered in these papers, is characteristic of the field and also of the scholarly work of Professor Charnes. Extre mal methods and systems analysis has been a pioneering and systematic approach to the development and application of new scientific theories and methods for problems of management and operations in both the pri vate and public sectors, spanning all major disciplines from economics to engineering.
Download or read book Advances in Project Scheduling written by R. Slowinski and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-author volume, containing contributions from international experts in the field, presents recent developments in project scheduling for both theory and practice. It is organized in three parts: I. Basic deterministic models; II. Special deterministic models; III. Stochastic models. A variety of approaches is presented dealing with multiple-category resource constraints, different mathematical models of activities, and various project performance measures in single and multiobjective formulation. Exact and heuristic algorithms are presented for both deterministic and stochastic project description.The volume will be of special interest to scientists, students, decision makers, executive managers, consultants and practitioners involved in systems management or operations research, in particular in business, engineering, and finance, but also in other areas of pure and applied sciences.
Download or read book Operations Research written by Jay E. Aronson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a conference honoring Gerald L. Thompson, the pioneer of operations research, this volume brings together some of the latest writings of major figures in the field. The volume is divided into four parts: the first part reviews the career and significance of Thompson, the second concentrates on linear and nonlinear optimization, the third looks at network and integer programming, and the fourth provides examples of applications-oriented research in manufacturing. This volume will be an invaluable resource for all scholars and researchers involved in theory and methodology in operations research and management science.
Download or read book Systems and Management Science by Extremal Methods written by Fred Young Phillips and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Systems and Management Science by Extremal Methods, is the second in a series dedicated to honoring and extending the work of Abraham Charnes. The first volume, entitled Extremal Methods and Systems Analysis (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1980), was edited by A.V. Fiacco and K.O. Kortanek. Subtitled "An International Symposium on the Occasion of Abraham Charnes' Sixtieth Birthday," this first volume consisted of a selection from papers presented at a conference in honor of Professor Charnes held at The University of Texas at Austin in September 1977. This second volume consists of papers, to be described more fully below, that were presented in a similar 2 conference held at the IC Institute of The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, in October of 1987, to honor Dr. Charnes on his seventieth birthday. All these papers were written by scholars and scientists whose own work has been affected by the contributions of this distinguished scholar and educator over a long period of time.
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Download or read book On Duality in Infinite player Games and Sequential Chance constrained Programming written by Mark Joseph Eisner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
