Equitable Resource Allocation

Hanan Luss 지음

Wiley 2012년 09월 11일 출간

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A unique book that specifically addresses equitable resource allocation problems with applications in communication networks, manufacturing, emergency services, and moreResource allocation problems focus on assigning limited resources in an economically beneficial way among competing activities. Solutions to such problems affect people and everyday activities with significant impact on the private and public sectors and on society at large.Using diverse application areas as examples, Equitable Resource Allocation: Models, Algorithms, and Applications provides readers with great insight into a topic that is not widely known in the field. Starting with an overview of the topics covered, the book presents a large variety of resource allocation models with special mathematical structures and provides elegant, efficient algorithms that compute optimal solutions to these models.Authored by one of the leading researchers in the field, Equitable Resource Allocation:Is the only book that provides a comprehensive exposition of equitable resource allocation problemsPresents a collection of resource allocation models with applications in communication networks, transportation, content distribution, manufacturing, emergency services, and moreExhibits practical algorithms for solving a variety of resource allocation modelsUses real-world applications and examples to explain important conceptsIncludes end-of-chapter exercisesBringing together much of the equitable resource allocation research from the past thirty years, this book is a valuable reference for anyone interested in solving diverse optimization problems.

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Preface xiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction 11.1 Perspective 11.2 Equitable Resource Allocation: Lexicographic Minimax (Maximin) Optimization 31.3 Examples and Applications 141.3.1 Allocation of High-Tech Components 141.3.2 Throughput in Communication and Computer Networks 151.3.3 Point-to-Point Throughput Estimation in Networks 181.3.4 Bandwidth Allocation for Content Distribution 201.3.5 Location of Emergency Facilities 231.3.6 Other Applications 251.4 Related Fairness Criteria 261.5 Outline of the Book 301.5.1 Chapter 2: Nonlinear Resource Allocation 301.5.2 Chapter 3: Equitable Resource Allocation: Lexicographic Minimax and Maximin Optimization 301.5.3 Chapter 4: Equitable Resource Allocation with Substitutable Resources 311.5.4 Chapter 5: Multiperiod Equitable Resource Allocation 321.5.5 Chapter 6: Equitable Network Resource Allocation 331.5.6 Chapter 7: Equitable Resource Allocation with Integer Decisions 341.6 Concluding Remarks and Literature Review 351.6.1 Equitable Allocation of High-Tech Components 381.6.2 Equitable Throughput in Communication and Computer Networks 381.6.3 Point-to-Point Throughput Estimation in Networks 391.6.4 Equitable Bandwidth Allocation for Content Distribution 391.6.5 Equitable Location of Emergency Facilities 391.6.6 Other Applications 392 Nonlinear Resource Allocation 412.1 Formulation and Optimality Properties 422.2 Algorithms 482.2.1 The Activity Deletion Algorithm 482.2.2 The Activity Addition Algorithm 532.2.3 The Constraints Evaluation Algorithm 552.2.4 Lower and Upper Bounds 582.3 Nonlinear Resource-Usage Constraint 582.3.1 Formulation and Optimality Properties 592.3.2 Algorithms 622.4 Multiple Resource Constraints: A Special Case 662.5 Concluding Rema

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I am very pleased to see this book available. Former comprehensive book on mathematical methods for resource allocation by Ibaraki and Katoh is excellent but it is already almost 25 years old. Meantime, a lot of new methods has been developed. Models and algorithms for equitable resource allocation are likely the most important advancements among them. They are extremely useful in a variety of practical application areas, but are not widely known. They had been scattered among specific research and application areas.The book fills out the gap by presenting the equitable techniques in a coherent and convenient form to readers from wide areas of engineering and operations management. It is indeed a unique book that specifically addresses equitable resource allocation problems with applications in many areas, not restricted to the information and communication technologies. Actually, it is an excellent book. Various models are widely motivated while the algorithms are clearly presented in details as ready to implement. Each chapter is also accompanied by a set of interesting exercises.I strongly recommend this book to professionals in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science and Telecommunications as well as a textbook for graduate students.&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& - Wlodzimierz OgryczakI am very pleased to ha

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HANAN LUSS, PhD, serves as an Adjunct Professor, teaching operations research courses at Columbia University. Dr. Luss was at ATT Bell Laboratories/ATT Labs for twenty-five years, serving as technical manager of the Operations Research Studies Group, and at Telcordia Technologies for twelve years, serving as senior scientist. He led research activities and applied work with an emphasis on operations research methodologies for resource allocation, communication network design, capacity expansion, manufacturing, and related topics. A Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Dr. Luss has published over seventy papers in major refereed journals and books and has been granted more than ten patents.