Nagurney Co-authors Book

Professor Nagurney (second from right) receiving the first copy of "Networks Against Time" with CETA Associate Dean Hisham Alnajjar and CETA staff members Allison Poulin (far left) and Geralyn Merrill (far right).

The book, Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products, coauthored by Ladimer Nagurney, professor of electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering in CETA, has been published as part of the book series, "Springer Briefs in Optimization," by Springer-Verlag, New York.

This book describes a unified supply chain network analytics framework to handle optimization and competitive behavior while also maintaining relevance to many industrial sectors in which perishable products are prominent, from healthcare to food and from high technology to fast fashion apparel. It describes a wide range of critical supply chain problems, which are modeled as generalized networks. Case studies portray the application of the models and algorithms to real-world sectors, which illustrate the practical power of the framework.

The book is co-authored by Anna Nagurney and Amir H. Masoumi of the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and Min Yu of the University of Portland.