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Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control

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WILEY-INTERSCIENCE SERIES IN SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION
Advisory Editors
Sheldon Ross
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Richard Weber
Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University,
Wilberforce Road,Cambridge CB3 0WB

BATHER – Decision Theory: An Introduction to Dynamic Programming and Sequential
Decisions
CHAO/MIYAZAWA/PINEDO – Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form
Solutions
COURCOUBETIS/WEBER – Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology
and Modelling
DEB – Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms
GERMAN – Performance Analysis ofCommunication Systems: Modeling with
Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets
GHIANI/LAPORTE/MUSMANNO – Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and
Control
KALL/WALLACE – Stochastic Programming
KAMP/HASLER – Recursive Neural Networks for Associative Memory
KIBZUN/KAN – Stochastic Programming Problems with Probability and Quantile Functions
RUSTEM – Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming andMultiple-Objective Decisions
WHITTLE – Optimal Control: Basics and Beyond
WHITTLE – Neural Nets and Chaotic Carriers

The concept of a system as an entity in its own right has emerged with increasing force in the
past few decades in, for example, the areas of electrical and control engineering, economics,
ecology, urban structures, automation theory, operational research and industry. The moredefinite concept of a large-scale system is implicit in these applications, but is particularly
evident in such fields as the study of communication networks, computer networks, and neural
networks. The Wiley-Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization has been established
to serve the needs of researchers in these rapidly developing fields. It is intended for works
concerned with the developments inquantitative systems theory, applications of such theory
in areas of interest, or associated methodology.

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Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control

Gianpaolo Ghiani
Department of Innovation Engineering,
University of Lecce, Italy
Gilbert Laporte
Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management,
HEC Montr´ al, Canada
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Roberto Musmanno
Department ofElectronics, Informatics and Systems,
University of Calabria, Italy

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