The principle aim of this book, entitled "Operations ResearchlManagement Science at Work", is to provide a summary snapshot of recent research in and applications of Operations Research (OR)/ Management Science (MS) in the Asia-pacific region. The book emphasises research having potential industry interest, covering a wide range of topics from major fields of ORIMS in a systematic and coherent fashion and shows the elegance of their implementations. The book is intended to serve the needs of applied researchers who are interested in applications of ORIMS algorithms. The book includes descriptions of many real-world problems together with their solutions; we hope the reader will appreciate their applicability. The Asia-pacific region has embraced business applications of decision support systems in recent years. Given that many of these applications are unaffected by legacy models or systems it has meant that state of the art ORIMS techniques have been embedded in them. Moreover, the increased use of OR/MS techniques in this region provides opportunities for identifying methodological advances that are taking place as a result of the unique nature of the applications. These also provide opportunities for exploring synergies and interfaces that exist between OR/MS, from the point of view of applications as well as theoretical advances.

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Recent Algorithmic Advances for Arc Routing Problems.- Sequencing and Scheduling for Non-Serial Permutation Flowshops.- Improved Multiple Ant Colonies System for Traveling Salesman Problems.- The Video Placement and Routing Problem.- A Markov Chain Tabu Search Approach to the Evolutionary Allocation Problem.- A Game of Corruption in a Stylized South-East Asian Timber Industry: A Genetic Algorithm Approach.- A General Framework for Constructive Meta-Heuristics.- The Immune Distributed Competitive Problem Solver using Major Histocompatibility Complex and Immune Network.- Search Algorithms for Nurse Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms.- Parallel Agent Passing Tabu Search Algorithm for Graph Partitioning Problem.- Heuristic Techniques for Scheduling Railway Track Maintenance.- Optimising a Horizontally Integrated Push/Pull Hybrid Production System in a Foundry.- Design of Adaptive Self Navigated Airship in Simulated Environment.- On the use of a Structural Modelling for Collaborative Learning Using the Concept Map.- Global Convergence Property of Error Back-Propagation Method for Recurrent Neural Networks.- A Material Planning Model for Mixed Model Assembly Lines.- A Fuzzy Programming Model for a Cross-Border Logistics Problem under an Uncertain Environment in Hong Kong.- The DSS Architecture Based on Non-Mathematical Problems Specification and Model/Solver Independence.- Hyper Sensitivity Analysis of Productivity Measurement Problems.- Reduced Game Property of Linear Values with Equal Treatment Property.- Alternative Transformations and Duality of Linear Fractional Programming.- Max-Min Optimization of the Multiple Knapsack Problem: An Implicit Enumeration Approach.- A Planning System for Precision Farming Based on an Autonomous Tractor.- Spot Price Forecasting Models for Risk Aversion in Victoria's Electricity Market.- Refining Diffusion Models for State-Dependent Queues.- A System Dynamics Model for Helicopter Operations.