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Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling - A Festschrift in Honor of Salah Elmaghraby (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling - A Festschrift in Honor of Salah Elmaghraby (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 200
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From the Preface: This festschrift is devoted to recognize the
career of a man who not only witnessed the growth of operations
research from its inception, but also contributed significantly to
this growth. Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby received his doctorate degree
from Cornell University in 1958, and since then, his scholarly
contributions have enriched the fields of production planning and
scheduling and project scheduling. This collection of papers is
contributed in his honor by his students, colleagues, and
acquaintances. It offers a tribute to the inspiration received from
his work, and from his guidance and advice over the years, and
recognizes the legacy of his many contributions. Dr. Elmaghraby is
a pioneer in the area of project scheduling (in particular, project
planning and control through network models, for which he coined
the term 'activity networks'.) In his initial work in this area, he
developed an algebra based on signal flow graphs and semi-Markov
processes for analyzing generalized activity networks involving
activities with probabilistic durations. This work led to the
development of what was later known as the Graphical Evaluation and
Review Technique (GERT), and GERT simulation models. He has made
fundamental contributions in determining criticality indices for
activities, in developing methodologies for project compression and
time/cost analysis, and in the use of stochastic and
chance-constrained programming and Petri Nets for the analysis of
activity networks. This volume brings together fourteen
contributions, which can be viewed under the following three main
themes: operations research and its application in production
planning; project scheduling, and production scheduling, inspired
by, and in many cases based on, Dr. Elmaghraby's work in these
areas. The first five chapters are devoted to the first theme,
followed by four chapters each devoted to the other two,
respectively. An additional chapter is devoted to the vulnerability
of multimodal freight systems.
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