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An interactive Excel Visual Basic for Applications example for teaching statistics concepts
2006,
It is often challenging for business students to learn abstract statistical concepts...
An electronic teaching assistant for basic operations management methods
2006,
Software packages are frequently used to support the teaching of quantitative methods....
Introducing integer modeling with Excel Solver
2006,
This article suggests ideas for introducing integer modeling of fixed (entry) costs...
Captivate your students' minds: developing interactive tutorials to support the teaching of spreadsheet modeling skills
2006,
Kolb's experiential theory of learning, later modified by McCarthy to develop the 4MAT...
Integrating spreadsheet engineering in a management science course: A hierarchical approach
2006,
Business students who rely on spreadsheets can use management science only to the...
Multistage Monte Carlo method for solving influence diagrams using local computation
2004,
The main goal of this paper is to describe a new multistage Monte Carlo (MMC)...
Large sample properties of weighted Monte Carlo estimators
2005,
A general approach to improving simulation accuracy uses information about auxiliary...
Fitting time-series input processes for simulation
2005,
Providing accurate and automated input-modeling support is one of the challenging...
Stochastic simulation research in Management Science
2004,
When the simulation department of Management Science was created in 1978 it ushered in...
Web-based simulations for teaching queueing, Little's Law, and inventory management
2006,
We describe and make available three web-based simulations that help to teach concepts...
A note on convexity of the expected delay cost in single-server queues
2005,
In this note, we show that the expected delay cost for a G / G /1 queue is not...
On the asymptotic optimality of the gradient scheduling algorithm for multiuser throughput allocation
2005,
We consider the model where N queues (users) are served in discrete time by a...
A diffusion approximation for the G/GI/n/m queue
2004,
We develop a diffusion approximation for the queue-length stochastic process in the...
An invariance relation and a unified method to derive stationary queue-length distributions
2004,
For a broad class of discrete- and continuous-time queueing systems, we show that the...
Efficiency-driven heavy-traffic approximations for many-server queues with abandonments
2004,
To provide useful practical insight into the performance of service-oriented...
A fast cross-entropy method for estimating buffer overflows in queueing networks
2004,
In this paper, we propose a fast adaptive importance sampling method for the efficient...
Using AMPL for teaching the traveling salesman problem
2006,
In this paper, we discuss the use of AMPL in teaching students about the traveling...
A fictitious play approach to large-scale optimization
2005,
In this paper, we investigate the properties of the sampled version of the fictitious...
Computation of minimum-volume covering ellipsoids
2004,
We present a practical algorithm for computing the minimum-volume n -dimensional...
Efficient diversification according to stochastic dominance criteria
2004,
This paper develops the first operational tests of portfolio efficiency based on the...
Tolerance sensitivity and optimality bounds in linear programming
2004,
Traditional sensitivity analysis in linear programming usually focuses on variations...
Cutting planes for low-rank-like concave minimization problems
2004,
Concavity cuts play an important role in several algorithms for concave minimization,...
The Lagrangian Relaxation Method for Solving Integer Programming Problems (Marshall L. Fisher)
2004,
This paper is taken from a special supplement to the journal Management Science at the...
A branch-and-price algorithm for multistage stochastic integer programming with application to stochastic batch-sizing problems
2004,
In this paper, we present a branch-and-price method to solve special structured...
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