Book review pages
In 2010/2011, I was area editor for book reviews at Operations Research Letters (ORL). In the meantime, this activity has been stopped.
Below the book review as of 2004, most of which have been arranged by my predecessor, Frits Spieksma from KU Leuven.
Past book reviews (from 2004)
2011
- Matthias Mnich reviewed: Fedor V. Fomin, Dieter Kratsch (2010). Exact Exponential Algorithms,
Springer Verlag, Berlin (see ORL 39, 2011, 229-230).
2010
- Walter Kern reviewed: Peters, H. (2008), Game Theory: A Multi-Leveled Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (see ORL 38, 2010, 492).
2008
- Kirk Pruhs reviewed: Nisan, N. T. Roughgarden, E. Tardos, V. Vazirani (editors) (2007), Algorithmic Game Theory, Cambridge University Press
(see ORL 36, 2008, 656).
- Dries Goossens reviewed: Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg (editors) (2006), Combinatorial Auctions, MIT Press
(see ORL 36, 2008, 513-514).
- Patric R. J. Östergård reviewed: P.G. Szabó, M.C. Markót, T. Csendes, E. Specht, L.G. Casado, I. García (2007), New Approaches to Circle Packing in a Square, Springer
(see ORL 36, 2008, 277-278).
- Michael Trick reviewed: David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vasek Chvátal ,William J. Cook (2007). The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study, Princeton University Press
(see ORL 36, 2008, 276-277).
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2007
- Samuel Fiorini reviewed: Aardal, K., G. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel (editors) (2006), Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Vol. 12, Discrete Optimization,
Elsevier (see ORL 35, 2007, 823-824).
- Franz Rendl reviewed: Ruszczynski, A. (2006), Nonlinear Optimization, Princeton University Press (see ORL 35, 2007, 559-560).
- Rene Henrion reviewed: Mordukhovich, B. (2006), Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation, Vols. I and II, Springer
(see ORL 35, 2007, 558-559).
- Diethard Klatte reviewed: Brinkhuis, J., V. Tikhomirov, (2005), Optimization: Insights and Applications, Princeton University Press
(see ORL 35, 2007, 419-420).
- Thomas Erlebach reviewed: Roughgarden, T. (2005), Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy, MIT Press
(see ORL 35, 2007, 418-419).
- Stephen Graves reviewed: Muckstadt, J. (2005), Analysis and Algorithms for Service Parts Supply Chains, Springer
(see ORL 35, 2007, 416-418).
- Philippe Baptiste reviewed: Schwindt, C. (2005), Resource Allocation in Project Management, Springer
(see ORL 35, 2007, 139-140).
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2006
- Wieslaw Kubiak reviewed: Pinedo, M. (2005), Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services, Springer
(see ORL 34, 2006, 599-600).
- Willy Gochet reviewed: Gass, S., A. Assad, (2004), An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History, Springer
(see ORL 34, 2006, 478).
- Jean Derks reviewed: Peleg, B., P. Sudholter, (2004), Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games, Springer
(see ORL 34, 2006, 239).
- Rüdiger Schultz reviewed: Marti, K. (2005), Stochastic Optimization Methods, Springer
(see ORL 34, 2006, 719-720).
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2005
- Bo Chen reviewed: Faigle, U., W. Kern, G. Still, (2002), Algorithmic Principles of Mathematical Programming, Springer
(see ORL 33, 2005, 653).
- Ruud Koning reviewed: Butenko, S., J. Gil-Lafuente, P. Pardalos, (editors) (2004), Economics, Management and Optimization, Springer
(see ORL 33, 2005, 652-653).
- Long review on Applied Probability Textbooks. Bert Zwart reviewed: Asmussen, S. (2003), Applied Probability and Queues, Springer; Chen, H., Yao, D. (2003),
Fundamentals of Queueing Networks, Springer; Whitt, W. (2002), Stochastic-Process Limits, Springer (see ORL 33, 2005, 544-550).
- Long review on Schrijver's Combinatorial Optimization. László Lovász reviewed: Schrijver, A. (2003), Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency, Springer (see ORL 33, 2005, 437-440).
- Nesim Erkip reviewed: Gershwin, S.B., Y. Dallery, C.T. Papadopoulos, J. MacGregor Smith
(2002), Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems, Volume 60 (see ORL 33, 2005, 219-220).
- Vitaly Strusevich reviewed: Kellerer, H., Pferschy, U., Pisinger, D. (2004),
Knapsack Problems, Springer (see ORL 33, 2005, 217-219).
- Ton Volgenant reviewed: Korte, B., Vygen, J. (2002), Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (see ORL 33, 2005, 216-217).
- Long review on Combinatorial Approximation Algorithms. Gerhard Woeginger reviewed: Ausiello, G., Crescenzi, P., Gambosi, G., Kann, V., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Protasi, M. (2002), Complexity and
Approximation: Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Their
Approximability Properties, Springer; Vazirani, V. (2002), Approximation Algorithms,
Springer; Hromkovic, J. (2003), Algorithmics for Hard Problems, Springer (see ORL 33, 2005, 210-215).
- Long review on Project Scheduling Literature. Tamas Kis reviewed: Demeulemeester, E.L., Herroelen, W.S. (2002),
Project Scheduling, A Research Handbook, Kluwer; Dorndorf, U. (2002), Project
Scheduling with Time Windows - From Theory to Applications, Springer; Neumann,
K., Schwindt, C., Zimmermann, J. (2003), Project Scheduling with Time Windows
and Scarce Resources - Temporal and Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
with Regular and Nonregular Objective Functions, Springer (see ORL 33, 2005, 105-110).
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2004
- Long review on Alan J. Hoffman's Selected Papers. Uriel Rothblum reviewed: Hoffman, A. (2003), Selected Papers of Alan J.
Hoffman, edited by Charles A. Micchelli, World Scientific (see ORL 32, 2004, 591-594).
- Gerhard Reinelt reviewed: Gutin, G. , A. Punnen, (editors) (2002), The Traveling
Salesman Problem and Its Variations, Kluwer (see ORL 32, 2004, 497-498).
- Alberto Caprara reviewed: Jünger, M., D. Naddef, (editors) (2001), Computational Combinatorial Optimization: Optimal or Provably Near-Optimal Solutions
(see ORL 32, 2004, 496-497).
- Gilbert Laporte reviewed: Hall, R.W. (editor) (2003), Handbook of Transportation Science,
Volume 56, Kluwer (see ORL 32, 2004, 393-397).
- Adam Letchford reviewed: Toth, P., D. Vigo (editors) (2001), The Vehicle Routing Problem
(see ORL 32, 2004, 392).
- David Hartvigsen reviewed: Jungnickel, D. (2002), Graphs, Networks and Algorithms
(2nd edition), Springer (see ORL 32, 2004, 391).
- Rudolf Müller reviewed: Dietrich, B., R. Vohra, P. Brick (editors) (2002) Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction
and Markets, Springer (see ORL 32, 2004, 390).
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