Synopses & Reviews
The Encyclopedia received the 2011 RUSA Award for Outstanding Business Reference Source
AN UNPARALLELED UNDERTAKING
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science is the first multi-volume encyclopedia devoted to advancing the areas of operations research and management science. The Encyclopedia is available online and in print.
The Encyclopedia was honored with the distinction of an "Outstanding Business Reference Source" by the Reference and User Services Association
DETAILED AND AUTHORITATIVE
Designed to be a mainstay for students and professionals alike, the Encyclopedia features four types of articles at varying levels written by diverse, international contributors.
• Introductory articles provide a broad and moderately technical treatment of core topics.
• Advanced articles review key areas of research in a citation-rich format similar to that of leading review journals.
• Technical articles provide more detailed discussions of key concepts addressed in related articles.
• Case Studies/Historical Interludes present successful and/or interesting examples of operations research and management science methodology in practical or historical contexts.
KEY FEATURES OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
• Offers the only cohesive multi-volume reference devoted to operations research and management science theory, methodology, and applications
• Includes over 600 articles with contributions from over 1,000 authors from 45 countries.
• Features an Editorial Board comprised of experts in the field who have vast experience in academia, industry, and government
• Designed to make the content useful and accessible to the widest possible readership
• Provides practical tools to maximize benefits and minimize cost and risk
Review
"The primary purpose of the book is to provide a tool box that will assist in the effective and efficient management of institutions of higher learning. Toward that end, [Middaugh] proposes a variety of methods and strategies for assessing institutional effectiveness and discusses the interpretation, communication, and use of data gained from assessment processes.
Middaugh highlights the usefulness of assessment as a management tool. He tackles the better known and understood areas of assessment such as student engagement and learning and instructional costs and productivity, and he also highlights methods and strategies in administrative areas where assessment is more difficult.
Middaugh?s books and articles are notable for readability and for the thoroughness of his approach. He begins by offering a historical perspective that explains the national context for assessment and planning in higher education. Moving beyond the conceptual/theoretical, Middaugh makes a strong case for systematic and sustainable assessment directly tied to mission-based planning. In this volume he offers practical advice about what should be done, why it should be done, and how best to go about doing it." ? Planning for Higher Education; reviewer: Elizabeth Sibolski, interim president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
"Planning and Assessment in Higher Education is a guidebook that should be on the shelf in offices of planning and institutional research, as well as in offices charged with responsibility for institutional assessment. In addition, the book can serve a wider purpose as an introduction and orientation or as a review of interconnected mission-based planning and assessment. In this context, I recommend it to senior-level administrators who might find it particularly useful in developing specific institutional approaches to management, to department heads and deans who stand at the front lines of institutional operations and who must plan and evaluate programs and services, and to new college and university trustees who might find it helpful as a frame of reference for institutional oversight responsibilities."? Planning for Higher Education; reviewer: Elizabeth Sibolski, interim president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Review
“As a resource for courses, teams of researchers, for ideas for future research, for those interested in numerical methods looking for professional applications, as an amalgamof clear discussion and linked numerical display, this encyclopaedia is hard to beat.” (
Reference Reviews, 2012)
"Good quality reference books on the operational aspects of business organizations are surprisingly difficult to find. But we recently added one that we hope will prove very useful. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (EORMS) is the first multi-volume encyclopedia devoted to advancing the areas of operations research and management science ... Take advantage of this very sophisticated encyclopedia when you are looking for basic background information on a wide variety of topics related to operations research and management science theory, methodology, and applications." (Mildred F Sawyer Library Blog, 21 April 2011)
"The Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science brings together hundreds of specific examples of theories and applied research, and serves as a reference manual for academic researchers, advanced students , and professionals working in the field who wish to utilize a particular theory of to find seminal research in the fields of operations research and management science." (Van Houlson & Nathan Rupp, 2011 Outstanding Business Reference Sources, The Reference and User Services Association, 22 January 2012)
"This encyclopedia provides an overview of many areas of operations research, management science, and their applications…the individual articles were written and peer-reviewed by experts in their respective areas, and many of the contributions are extremely thorough and authoritative.” (Choice, 1 September 2011)
"Highly recommended for universities, businesses with OR/MS or analytics departments, and other large groups that need a comprehensive OR/MS reference in a central location." (Interfaces, Nov/Dec 2011)
Synopsis
This book helps colleges and universities respond to the increasing pressures for accountability by giving them the tools to demonstrate institutional effectiveness. The author is in a unique position to help his colleagues, since he comes at the topic from multiple perspectives, being both a leading practitioner and researcher: Assistant VP for Institutional Research and Planning at his university, director of a national research project on costs of instruction, as well as Vice Chair of an accreditation agency.
While many books address the issue of assessing student learning outcomes, this book provides expert guidance for assessing and promoting institutional effectiveness in supporting student learning. The book's chapters cover every aspect from the overall context of the issue, through measures of effectiveness, to communicating with the public, and concludes with a guide to resources:
1. The National Context for Greater Accountability
2. Starting at the Beginning: The Institution's Position in the Admissions Market
3. The Core Issue in Accountability: Developing Sensible Measures of Student Learning
4. Developing Usable Measures of Student Satisfaction and Engagement
5. Maximizing Human and Fiscal Resources in Support of the Teaching & Learning Process
6. A Comparative Context for Examining Data on Teaching Loads and Instructional Costs
7. Measuring Administrative Effectiveness
8. Communicating Information About Institutional Effectiveness: Transparency and Accountability
Appendix: Resources for Assessing Institutional Effectiveness
Synopsis
In this era of increasing pressure on higher education institutions for accountability,
Planning and Assessment in Higher Education is an essential resource for college and university leaders and staff charged with the task of providing evidence of institutional effectiveness. Michael F. Middaugh, a noted expert in the field, shows how colleges and universities can successfully measure student learning and institutional effectiveness and use these results to create more efficient communications with both internal and external constituencies as well as promote institutional effectiveness to support student learning.
"How can the assessment of institutional effectiveness be used to provide a solid foundation for planning? Middaugh has crafted a comprehensive, practical guide that also explains what accrediting agencies really want and need to know about these topics."
—Elizabeth H. Sibolski, executive vice president, Middle States Commission on Higher Education
"Only Michael Middaugh, the unquestioned national leader in this field, could write such a lucid overview of how to make institutional assessment and planning really work as a tool rather than as a tedious requirement. He helped invent and shape the focus of national assessment rubrics and now offers his insights into how to make them work for your institution."
—John C. Cavanaugh, chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
"Middaugh provides extremely helpful and practical guidance and insights on how colleges and universities can use assessment tools and frameworks to improve both academic programs and administrative operations. A valuable and timely book for all higher education leaders."
—James P. Honan, senior lecturer on education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Synopsis
Planning and Assessment in Higher Education provides guidance for assessing and promoting institutional effectiveness. The book contains a wide range of issues, from measures of effectiveness to communicating with the public. Written by an expert in the field, with titles such as the Assistant VP for Institutional Research and Planning, director of national costs of instruction research project, as well as the Vice Chair of an accreditation agency, this is an essential resource for university leaders for achieving institutional effectiveness.
About the Author
Michael F. Middaugh is associate provost for institutional effectiveness at the University of Delaware, and commissioner and vice chair of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. He is a past president of the Association for Institutional Research and the Society for College and University Planning and the author of Understanding Faculty Productivity from Jossey-Bass.
Table of Contents
Use of Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials in RLT.
Systems in Series.
Parallel Configurations.
Spanning trees.
Recycling.
Split Cuts.
Retrial Queues.
Horse Racing.
MACBETH (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique).
Dual simplex.
History of CP.
Procurement Contracts.
MRP.
Just in Time.
Push and Pull Production.
MULTIVARIATE INPUT MODELING.
Operational Research Society.
The M/G/1 Queue.
Drama Theory.
Hyper-heuristics.
Antithetic Variates.
Music.
Edgeworth market games.
Operational Risk.
Queueing Notation.
Environmental impact.
Why variance is not risk.
Conjugate gradient methods.
Birth-and-Death Processes.
Surgery Planning and Scheduling.
Large-scale linear models.
Standby Systems.
Billiards/Pool.
AXIOMATIC MEASURES OF RISK AND RISK-VALUE MODELS.
Age Replacement Policies.
PASTA and Related Results.
Collaborative Procurement.
LP projection algorithms.
R&D risk management.
Bioterrorism.
Vendor-Managed Inventory.
Gomory Cuts.
Travel demand modeling.
System Availability.
Infinite horizon problems.
Trust.
Bayesian Network Classifiers.
Integer Programming Duality.
Queueing Disciplines.
Stakeholder participation.
Models and Basic Properties.
Parametric LP analysis.
Operations Research and Golfing.
Ice Hockey.
Clustering.
Finite-Population Models.
Batch Arrivals and Service.
Optimal Monitoring Strategies.
Basic Polyhedral Theory.
Operations Research and Art.
Managing portfolios of risks.
Measures of risk equity.
Branch and Bound Algorithms.
Analytics in Retail.
Variational Inequalities.
Cross-Entropy Method.
TSP heuristics.
Capacity allocation.
Control Variates.
Cover Inequalities.
Direct Search Methods.
NLP Software.
Bilinear optimization.
Discrete-Time Martingales.
Branch and Price.
Column generation.
IP Preprocessing.
Optimal Reliability Allocation.
Simplex-based LP solvers.
Instance Formats.
Clique generalizations.
Availability in Stochastic Models.
Evolutionary Algorithms.
Basic CP theory: Search.
Multimethodology.
Branch and Cut.
Memetic Algorithms.
Urban mass transit.
Coherent Systems.
Subgradient optimization.
Klimov’s Model.
Credit risk assessment.
Branch-width and Tangles.
Stochastic Hazard Process.
Deterministic Global Optimization.
Multistage (stochastic) games.
Basis Reduction Methods.
ACCIDENT PRECURSORS AND WARNING SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO MATHEMATICAL MODELS.
Genetic Algorithms.
Newsvendor models.
Parallel Systems.
Opportunities in Tennis.
Job-shop scheduling.
Simplex method and complexity.
Geometric programming.
Evacuation Planning.
The Performance?
Allocation Games.
Scenario Generation.
Robustness Analysis.
Dynamic auctions.
Neuroeconomics and game theory.
Common Random Numbers.
Selective Support Vector Machines.
Semi-Markov Processes.
Risk Averse Models.
Sampling Methods.
Domination problems.
Simulation of Rare Events.
Introduction to Tabu Search.
Basic Interdiction Models.
Introductory Concepts.
Remanufacturing.
PAUSE procedure.
Wardrop equilibria.
Mass customization.
Ellipsoidal algorithms.
Benders decomposition.
Dynamic vehicle routing.
Warranty Modeling.
Design for Network Resiliency.
Passenger rail transportation.
Vehicle Routing Problem.
Supply Chain Outsourcing.
Lovasz-Schriver Reformulation.
Hazard Rate Function.
Lot-sizing.
Differential games.
Regenerative Processes.
Guided Local Search.
Preferences for repeated gambles.
Percolation Theory.
Simulated Annealing.
Scoring Rules.
Mixing Sets.
Cricket.
Prospect Theory.
Combining Forecasts.
Graph search techniques.
Quasi-Newton methods.
Random search algorithms.
Supply chain coordination.
Service Outsourcing.
Markov Renewal Processes.
K-out-of-n Systems.