New Perspectives in Operations Research and Management Science

This book presents innovative operations research applications in business, specifically industrial engineering and its sub-disciplines. It investigates new perspectives in operations research and management science with regard to research methods, the research context, and industrial engineering, offering readers a broad range of new approaches to management problems. The book features the latest work of researchers who have worked with Professor Fusun Ulengin or built upon her work in their academic careers. Written in honor of Prof. Ulengin, this book was edited by her former Ph.D. students, insightful in their own disciplines – operations research, multiple criteria decision making, competitiveness, logistics and supply chain management. Prof. Ulengin’s impact in academia is visible in the range of topics and methodologies featured in this book: location and transportation problems, competitiveness of nations, food supply chains, debt collection, mathematical modelling, multiple criteria decision making, data envelopment analysis, random forests, and Bayesian networks as some of the exciting methodologies.