Operations Research in Space and Air is a selection of papers reflecting
the experience and expertise of international OR consulting companies
and academic groups. The global market and competition play a crucial
part in the decision making processes within the Space and Air
industries and this book gives practical examples of how advanced
applications can be used by Space and Air industry management. The
material within the book provides both the basic background for the
novice modeler and a useful reference for experienced modelers.
Students, researchers and OR practitioners will appreciate the details
of the modeling techniques, the processes that have been implemented and
the computational results that demonstrate the benefits in applying OR
in the Space and Airline industries. Advances in PC and Workstations
technology, in optimiza- tion engines and in modeling techniques now
enable solving problems, never before attained by Operations Research.
In recent years the Ital- ian OR Society (AfRO, www. airo. org) has
organized annual forums for researchers and practitioners to meet
together to present and dis- cuss the various scientific and technical
OR achievements. The OR in Space 8 Air session of AfR02001 and AfR02002
Conferences, together with optimization tools' applications, presented
recent results achieved by Alenia Spazio S. p. A. (Turin), Alitalia,
Milan Polytechnic and Turin Polytechinc. With additional contributions
from academia and indus- try they have enabled us to capture, in print,
today's 'state-of-the-art' optimization and data mining solutions.
