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Optimization methods enable businesses to increase their responsiveness and resiliency to changing market forces while minimizing their cost. Topics for this diverse issue include workforce and production planning, transportation optimization, materials allocation, and the efficient management of inventories, customers, risk, compliance, pricing, marketing solutions, and intruder alerts.
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Business Optimization
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Message from the Vice President, Center for Business Optimization, IBM Global Business Services
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William R. Pulleyblank
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Preface
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B. M. Schieber, Guest Editor
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p. 247
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Applying supply chain optimization techniques to workforce planning problems
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D. L. Gresh, D. P. Connors, J. P. Fasano, and R. J. Wittrock
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p. 251
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Workforce optimization: Identification and assignment of professional workers using constraint programming
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Y. Naveh, Y. Richter, Y. Altshuler, D. L. Gresh, and D. P. Connors
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p. 263
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Statistical methods for automated generation of service engagement staffing plans
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J. Hu, B. K. Ray, and M. Singh
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p. 281
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A quantitative optimization model for dynamic risk-based compliance management
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S. Müller and C. Supatgiat
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p. 295
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Modeling of risk losses using size-biased data
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E. Yashchin
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p. 309
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Multicommodity network flow approach to the railroad crew-scheduling problem
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B. Vaidyanathan, K. C. Jha, and R. K. Ahuja
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p. 325
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Production design for plate products in the steel industry
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S. Dash, J. Kalagnanam, C. Reddy, and S. H. Song
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p. 345
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The material allocation problem in the steel industry
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H. Yanagisawa
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p. 363
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Strategic planning of preparedness budgets for wildland fire management
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G. Parija, T. Kumar, H. Xi, and D. Keller
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p. 375
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Inventory allocation and transportation scheduling for logistics of network-centric military operations
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F. Barahona, P. Chowdhary, M. Ettl, P. Huang, T. Kimbrel, L. Ladanyi, Y. M. Lee, B. Schieber, K. Sourirajan, M. I. Sviridenko, and G. M. Swirszcz
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p. 391
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Marketing event optimization
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D. A. Selby
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p. 409
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Optimizing marketing planning and budgeting using Markov decision processes: An airline case study
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A. Labbi and C. Berrospi
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p. 421
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An SQL-based cost-effective inventory optimization solution
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K. Katircioglu, T. M. Brown, and M. Asghar
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p. 433
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Inventory budget optimization: Meeting system-wide service levels in practice
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P. Korevaar, U. Schimpel, and R. Boedi
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p. 447
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Insider attack and real-time data mining of user behavior
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G. F. Anderson, D. A. Selby, and M. Ramsey
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p. 465
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Advances in analytics: Integrating dynamic data mining with simulation optimization
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M. Better, F. Glover, and M. Laguna
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p. 477
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Mixed-integer nonlinear programming: Some modeling and solution issues
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J. Lee
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p. 489
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