Harvey J. Greenberg, Series Editor
J. Cole Smith, Tutorials Chair and Volume Editor

TutORials 2005 is a new publication in a collection of tutorials designed for students, faculty and practitioners. The Tutorials in Operations Research Series provides in-depth instruction in significant specialties in operations research and the management sciences.

To help practitioners and researchers keep pace with the speed of progress in OR/MS, TutORials 2005 presents a compilation of chapters based on tutorial presentations given at the 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. This book is designed to cover current trends in applications, methodologies and theories of OR/MS, and contains contributions from some of the preeminent leaders in the field.

Specific topics include efforts in the railroad, supply chain, and revenue management fields; methodological and computational advances for large-scale and discrete optimization problems; network interdiction; and novel discoveries in the fields of human decision-making models and decision analysis. Additionally, a chapter is devoted to education in the OR/MS classroom using contemporary case studies and active learning strategies. See the complete contents listing below.

TutORials 2005 is available in the following formats:

• Printed book - $45
• CD - $45
• Both printed book and CD - $75

To Order

• Place your order when you register for the San Francisco Annual Meeting, and then pick up your copy at the Annual Meeting. The TutORials purchase option is included in the meeting registration form CLICK HERE.
• Stop by the INFORMS booth at the San Francisco meeting to place your order.

TutORials 2005 - Contents

Branch and Tree Decomposition Techniques for Discrete Optimization
Illya V. Hicks, Arie M. C. A. Koster, and Elif Kolotoğlu

Stochastic Programming: Optimization When Uncertainty Matters
Julia L. Higle

Network Models in Railroad Planning and Scheduling
Ravindra K. Ahuja, Claudio B. Cunha, and Güvenç Şahin

Analyzing the Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure to Attack and Planning Defenses
Gerald Brown, W. Matthew Carlyle, Javier Salermón, and Kevin Wood

Demand Selection and Assignment Problems in Supply Chain Planning
Joseph Geunes, Yasemin Merzifonluoğlu, H. Edwin Romeijn, and Kevin Taaffe

An Introduction to Revenue Management
Garrett J. van Ryzin and Kalyan T. Talluri

Decision Analysis = Decision Engineering
James E. Matheson

Operations Research in Experimental Psychology
J. Neil Bearden and Amnon Rapoport

Active Learning for Quantitative Courses
James J. Cochran

CBC User Guide
John Forrest and Robin Lougee-Heimer