Title: Industrial Applications of Combinatorial Optimization
Abstract: Preface. 1. Moving Toward an Integrated Decision Support System for Manpower Planning at Continental Airlines: Optimization of Pilot Training Assignments Gang Yu, et al. 2. Shortcomings of MRP II and a New Planning Meta-Method A. Kimms, A. Drexl. 3. The Development, Implementation and Use of a Package to Facilitate Planning and Production Scheduling in a Tobacco Processing Plant M.G. Nicholls. 4. Stability Radius of an Optimal Schedule: A Survey and Recent Developments Y.N. Sotskov, et al. 5. Scheduling Jobs with Sequence Dependent Setups on Coupled Lines E.C. Sewell, J.C. Tan. 6. Optimizing the Radial Component Insertion Operations on PCBs S.Y. Chang, et al. 7. Combinatorial Optimization in a Cattle Yard: Feed Distribution, Vehicle Scheduling, Lot Sizing, and Dynamic Pen Assignment M. Dror, J.M.Y. Leung. 8. Optimizing a Retail Promotional Calendar by Mixed Integer, Linear Programming S.A. Smith. 9. An Implementation of a System Using Heuristics to Support Decisions About Shop Floor Setup Changes R. De. 10. Integrative Population Analysis for Better Solutions to Large-Scale Mathematical Programs F. Glover, et al. 11. Lagrangian Relaxation for Flow Shop Scheduling G.G. Polak. 12. A Heuristic for Vehicle Routing and Manpower Planning G.A. Bohoris, J.M. Thomas. 13. Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rail Car Unloading Area J.F. Bard. 14. A Study of the Space Shuttle Scheduling Problem S.A. Brah, J.L. Hunsucker. 15. Models and Implementation Techniques for Local Access Telecommunication Network Design Geon Cho, D.X. Shaw.Appendix A: Pseudo-Code of Algorithm 2.