This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined operational plan when various disruptions prevent the original plan from being executed smoothly. A disruption management system will help decision-makers respond to disruptive events in real time so that the cost incurred by the disruption is reduced to a minimum. The impact of such systems is significant. For example, each year the disruption management system for US airlines generates savings of tens of millions of dollars.

Contents:

• Case Study: Disruption Management at Continental Airlines
• General Models for Disruption Management
• Disruption Management for Flight Scheduling
• Disruption Management for Airline Crew Scheduling
• Disruption Management for Machine Scheduling
• Disruption Management for Logistics Scheduling
• Inventory Disruption Management Based on Economic Production Quantity Models
• Disruption Management for Discrete Production Planning Problems
• Disruption Management for Supply Chain Coordination
• Disruption Management for Project Scheduling

“This book treats a problem domain of considerable theoretical and practical interest, to which the authors have made good contributions. It is of considerable value to researchers in this area by bringing together applications of the authors' particular formulation to a number of different domains ... is a useful contribution to this rapidly growing research domain.”

“This book may be useful for student seminars in operations research.”