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Book Reviews J.P. BRANS (Ed.)
Operational Research '81 Proceedings of the Ninth IFORS International Conference on Operational Research, Hamburg, Germany, July 20-24, 1981, North-HoUand, Amsterdam, 1981, xx + 984 pages, Dfl.250.00 This book contains about 80 papers selected from 350 papers presented at the 9th Triennial Conference on Operational Research, Hamburg, 1981. The book contains the most important papers presented at IFORS '81 organized in 13 chapters, a report of workshops at IFORS '81 in chapter XlV and a report of the Hamburg OR Software Exhibition. The main directions in OR according to these proceedings seem to be the following: (1) Developing models for large organizations, multinational enterprises. (2) Developing models for macroeconomic and social problems in various countries, especially in developing countries. Chapter llI in this book is devoted to OR in developing countries. (3) Models for world societal problems which concern the major societal changes to be faced during the next 20 years and the contributions of OR and SA in these changes. Three out of seven workshops which took place at IFORS '81 presented in this book in chapter XIV deal with this aspect: "World Societal Problems"; "Energy Planning Models" and "Energy-Economy Modelling for Developing and Industrializing Countries". (4) The success and failure of OR applications and the responsibility of the OR profession which is the topic of the national contributions from Canada and Norway. (5) An increasing interest in OR applications which appear in national contributions from China, Singapore, Spain. Operational researchers wishing to review books, and publishers wishing to have new books reviewed, please contact C.B. Til.anus, Eindhooen University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, $6~0 M~B Eindhooen, Netherlands, Tel. 040.473601.
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(6) The mathematics of OR tends to become more and more applicative: decision analysis, multiple objective programming, graphs, networks and games, i.e. those branches and models of mathematics which can be immediately applied in OR. One very interesting paper is " O R / M S in Europe: An American's Impression" which describes the main tendencies in OR in Europe as opposed to OR in America. It appears from almost all papers that the role of mathematics becomes more and more important as a practical way of handling ideas expressed as numbers. This book can be recommended to all people working in OR or related areas. t
A nca PA SCU Academy "'Stefan Gheorghiu" Bucharest, Romania
Frederick S. HILLIER and Oliver S. YU
Queueing Tables and Graphs North-Holland, New York, 1981, ix + 231 pages, $44.00 There is a great need for tools which take many of the generic model "solutions" in queueing theory and reduce them to practice. The need to develop tools (such as software implementation of algorithmic results and tables and graphs) which treat models arising in telecommunication and computer systems is particularly great. These models include the solvable subset of G I / G / c systems as well as finite population and buffer models, cyclic queueing models, some generic queueing network models arising in computer systems and models dealing with the highly variable processes that arise in teletraffic and data communication systems. This book, which is designed primarily for operations researchers, industrial engineers and systems analysts, satisfies some of these needs. It represents the collective effort of a "revolving project team" at Stanford University, which has been active on a continuous basis since 1970 (an indica-
0377-2217/82/0000-0000/$02.75 © 1982 North-Holland
Book Reviews J.P. BRANS (Ed.)
Operational Research '81 Proceedings of the Ninth IFORS International Conference on Operational Research, Hamburg, Germany, July 20-24, 1981, North-HoUand, Amsterdam, 1981, xx + 984 pages, Dfl.250.00 This book contains about 80 papers selected from 350 papers presented at the 9th Triennial Conference on Operational Research, Hamburg, 1981. The book contains the most important papers presented at IFORS '81 organized in 13 chapters, a report of workshops at IFORS '81 in chapter XlV and a report of the Hamburg OR Software Exhibition. The main directions in OR according to these proceedings seem to be the following: (1) Developing models for large organizations, multinational enterprises. (2) Developing models for macroeconomic and social problems in various countries, especially in developing countries. Chapter llI in this book is devoted to OR in developing countries. (3) Models for world societal problems which concern the major societal changes to be faced during the next 20 years and the contributions of OR and SA in these changes. Three out of seven workshops which took place at IFORS '81 presented in this book in chapter XIV deal with this aspect: "World Societal Problems"; "Energy Planning Models" and "Energy-Economy Modelling for Developing and Industrializing Countries". (4) The success and failure of OR applications and the responsibility of the OR profession which is the topic of the national contributions from Canada and Norway. (5) An increasing interest in OR applications which appear in national contributions from China, Singapore, Spain. Operational researchers wishing to review books, and publishers wishing to have new books reviewed, please contact C.B. Til.anus, Eindhooen University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, $6~0 M~B Eindhooen, Netherlands, Tel. 040.473601.
North-Holland Publishing Company Europeen Journal of Operational Research 10 (1982) 32(---330
(6) The mathematics of OR tends to become more and more applicative: decision analysis, multiple objective programming, graphs, networks and games, i.e. those branches and models of mathematics which can be immediately applied in OR. One very interesting paper is " O R / M S in Europe: An American's Impression" which describes the main tendencies in OR in Europe as opposed to OR in America. It appears from almost all papers that the role of mathematics becomes more and more important as a practical way of handling ideas expressed as numbers. This book can be recommended to all people working in OR or related areas. t
A nca PA SCU Academy "'Stefan Gheorghiu" Bucharest, Romania
Frederick S. HILLIER and Oliver S. YU
Queueing Tables and Graphs North-Holland, New York, 1981, ix + 231 pages, $44.00 There is a great need for tools which take many of the generic model "solutions" in queueing theory and reduce them to practice. The need to develop tools (such as software implementation of algorithmic results and tables and graphs) which treat models arising in telecommunication and computer systems is particularly great. These models include the solvable subset of G I / G / c systems as well as finite population and buffer models, cyclic queueing models, some generic queueing network models arising in computer systems and models dealing with the highly variable processes that arise in teletraffic and data communication systems. This book, which is designed primarily for operations researchers, industrial engineers and systems analysts, satisfies some of these needs. It represents the collective effort of a "revolving project team" at Stanford University, which has been active on a continuous basis since 1970 (an indica-
0377-2217/82/0000-0000/$02.75 © 1982 North-Holland