Publisher's Synopsis
Note: You can "look inside" this book at Amazon.com. Book summary: As is well known, there are many benefits of Linear Programming. As an optimization tool it is useful for decision making in order to increase profit or decrease cost. The number of applications is very large: finance, airline industry, energy production, logistics, telecommunications, advertising industry, etc. This manual is a simple introduction to Stochastic Linear Programming. It is intended for practitioners in business, engineering and industry who already use deterministic Linear Programming and wish to improve their results by taking into account the parameter uncertainty in an effective way. It is also suitable as an intuitive introduction to Stochastic Linear Programming for graduate courses. Cesar Beltran-Royo is a Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain.