TY - BOOK AU - Dohi,Tadashi (ed) AU - Osaki, Shunji (ed) AU - Sawaki, Katsushige (ed) TI - Recent advances in stochastic operations research SN - 9812567046 U1 - 519.23011 PY - 2007/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Operations research KW - Mathematical models KW - Congresses KW - Stochastic models N1 - Operations research uses quantitative models to analyze and predict the behavior of systems and to provide information for decision makers. Two key concepts in operations research are optimization and uncertainty. This volume consists of a collection of peer reviewed papers from the International Workshop on Recent Advances in Stochastic Operations Research (RASOR 2005), August 25 26, 2005, Canmore, Alberta, Canada ER -