Books
Books:
Bodhibrata Nag, Business Applications of Operations Research. (New York: Business Expert Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1606495261. Available at http://www.amazon.com/Business-Applications-Operations-Research-Bodhibrata/dp/1606495267 and http://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/business-applications-operations-research Recommended by LINDO SYSTEMS INC: https://www.lindo.com/index.php/help/recommended-books Limited version of LINGO software required for the book can be accessed here: http://www.lindo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=80 http://www.lindo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119&Itemid=16 The LINGO programs used in the book can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Fq2KgoLICUc2xNZVBDVW5FdlU/view?usp=sharing
Frederick S.Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman, Bodhibrata Nag and Preetam Basu, Special 11th Indian Edition of Introduction to Operations Research. (New Delhi:McGraw Hill, 2021).ISBN 978-9354601200, Available at https://www.amazon.in/dp/9354601200/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=b7de71f8b45afb0216dad7f6e18df586&hsa_cr_id=4340607630602&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=7bd9a5ad-8df0-40db-aab3-3ee4b9c0e371&pd_rd_w=3VJsv&pd_rd_wg=pZvXO&ref_=sbx_be_s_sparkle_mcd_asin_0_title
Frederick S.Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman, Bodhibrata Nag and Preetam Basu, Special 10th Indian Edition of Introduction to Operations Research. (New Delhi:McGraw Hill, 2017).ISBN 978-9339221850. Available at https://www.amazon.in/Introduction-Operations-Research-Frederick-Hillier/dp/9339221850/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505799065&sr=1-2&keywords=Introduction+to+Operations+Research+nag+basu
Frederick S.Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman, Bodhibrata Nag and Preetam Basu, Special 9th Indian Edition of Introduction to Operations Research. (New Delhi:McGraw Hill, 2012). ISBN 978-0071333467. Available at http://www.amazon.in/Introduction-Operations-Research-Frederick-Hiller/dp/0071333460/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382157361&sr=8-1&keywords=introduction+to+operations+research, ISBN
Bodhibrata Nag,Optimal Design of Timetables for Large Railways: a framework to maximise schedule robustness and minimise resource deployment, using a multi-objective mathematical model. (2010). Available at http://www.amazon.com/Optimal-Design-Timetables-Large-Railways/dp/3838338499, ISBN 978-3838338491
Book Chapters in Case Studies in Operations Research-Applications of Optimal Decision Making:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 212 (New York:Springer,2015), ISBN 978-1-4939-1006-9: http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/operations+research/book/978-1-4939-1006-9 Katta G. Murty, Bodhibrata Nag, and Omkar D. Palsule-Desai, “Freight Transport by Rail” http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6_16 While the freight railroad industry has been in existence for about 200 years, the procedure used for combining freight rail-cars into blocks based on their destination yards (also referred to as nodes in this chapter) and other attributes, and then assembling blocks into trains has essentially remained the same. Based on customer orders on hand for transporting goods wagons; and the origin, destination, and other attributes like physical dimensions, freight type etc., the railway generates a trip plan detailing the movement of each rail-car from its origin yard to its specified destination yard. The main components of the trip plan are: (a) how to combine the rail-cars at each rail yard into groups called blocks, this is known as the block design problem, (b) designing trains to operate; identifying the origin, destination, route for each individual train, and along the route what blocks to pick up, drop off at different yards along the route; this is known as the “Block-to-train assignment (BTA) and train routing” problem, and also referred to as the Train Design Problem.
In this chapter we discuss this train design problem only assuming that blocks have already been formed at each of the yards; and the data on the origin, destination, number of rail-cars, length, tonnage of each block to be transported is given. This is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem encountered in the railroad industry. Bodhibrata Nag and Katta G. Murty,”Diesel Locomotive Fueling Problem (LFP) in Railroad Operations” http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6_2 Bodhibrata Nag and Katta G. Murty,”Organizing National Elections in India to Elect the 543 Members of the Lok Sabha” http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6_3