Community-Based Operations Research Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnson, Michael P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 167
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Macroeconomics.; Social policy.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Social Policy.

Community-based operations research (CBOR) is the use of analytical methods with government and organizations in the formal and informal non-profit sector to improve the lives of individuals and communities. The beneficiaries of these methods tend to be localized, as well as members of disadvantaged...

Table of Contents:

• Community-Based Operations Research: Introduction, Theory and Applications
• Tutorials in Operations Research 2007: "Community-Based Operations Research"
• Operations Management in Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations
• Modeling Equity for Allocating Public Resources
• Spatial Optimization and Geographic Uncertainty: Implications for Sex Offender
• Locating Neighborhood Parks with a Lexicographic Multiobjective Optimization Method
• Using GIS-Based Models to Protect Children from Lead Exposure
• A Model for Hair Care Flow in Salons in the Black Community
• Street Gangs: A Modeling Approach to Evaluating "At Risk" Youth and Communities
• Fair Fare Policies: Pricing Policies that Benefit Transit-Dependent Riders
• Decision Making for Emergency Medical Services
• Capacity Planning for Publicly Funded Community Based Long-Term Care Services
• A DEA Application Measuring Educational Costs and Efficiency of Illinois Elementary Schools.