WAYNE L. WINSTON
In Decision Making Under Uncertainty with RISKOptimizer, Wayne Winston, author of Palisade's best-selling Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization, once again offers models and techniques to find the best answers to business problems affected by uncertainty. Winston harnesses the power of Microsoft Excel along with Palisade's RISKOptimizer to solve business problems in areas such as inventory management, product mix decisions, capital budgeting, scheduling and more! Using Genetic Optimization and Monte Carlo simulation, optimal answers to previously unsolvable problems are now found! Managers from any industry will reap the benefits from this book. More than 30 example models ranging from job shop & production scheduling to retirement planning and options pricing are provided on the included CD-ROM as well. A trial version of RISKOptimizer, described by PC World as "a uniquely versatile business problem-solver" and "for many business problems, the most practical power tool around", is also included with the book.
Decision Making Under Uncertainty with RISKOptimiz
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- Decision Making Under Uncertainty shows you how to make the best possible decision given an uncertain environment. The models and techniques in this book combine the power of Microsoft Excel and Palisade Corporation’s RISKOptimizer add-in to find the best answers to problems affected by uncertainty. Genetic optimization combines with Monte Carlo simulation to provide optimal answers for many difficult, often previously unsolvable, real-world business problems. Topics and examples covered in the text include:
Optimal ordering policies for retailers, including multi-product decisions, impacts of salvage price, diversion of demand between competing products and decisions for style good purchases
Product mix decisions where demand and resource requirements for each product are uncertain
Yield management for managing "inventory" of seats and rooms for airlines and hotels when demand is uncertain
Production, manpower and job shop scheduling that minimizes expected costs in the face of uncertain demand and time requirements
Optimal inventory ordering decisions where product demand is uncertain
Capacity planning and optimal configuration of plant capacities when faced with uncertain demand for a new product
Capital budgeting and project selection when resources required for available projects are uncertain
Optimal cash management policy where cash inflows are uncertain
Capacity planning for utilities where power usage and power prices are uncertain
Retirement planning where returns on available investments are uncertain, and asset allocation to maximize the expected long-run growth rate of investments
Financial decision making including optimal hedging strategies that minimize risk, controlling the VAR for a portfolio involving correlated assets and identification of the combination of investments and derivatives (such as futures and options) which can maximize expected return subject to a constraint on the desired level of risk
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