This CD is prepared to supplement the printed book. Supplemental materials 

are placed here for two reasons. The first is to allow easy update, since a 

CD can be revised more easily than a printed book. Second, materials in 

electronic form can be processed more easily than printed text. The best 

example is computer programs, which are part of this CD. 



Here is the brief content of this CD, as organized into three folders:





Folder 1  Self-Instructional Modules

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Chapter 1 - Empirical Modeling Module

Chapter 2 - Probability Module

Chapter 3 - Probability Distribution and Queuing Module

Chapter 4 - Graph Optimization Module 

Chapter 5 - Risk Assessment Module

Chapter 6 - Linear Program Module Part 1 - Model Formulation

Chapter 7 - Linear Program Module Part 2 - Solution Algorithm





Folder 2  Presentations 

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(PowerPoint and PDF slides for instructors and students, organized by the 

following folder names)

Chapter1

Chapter2

Chapter3

Chapter4

Chapter5

Chapter6

Chapter7

Chapter8

Appendix1

Appendix2

Appendix3

Appendix4





Folder 3  Software and Data

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Directory #1 BOOK:  Software and datasets to support the analytics in the 

book



Program     Function

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STATEPRK    location model

SPANFRST    delivery-logistics location-routing program

RISE        scheduled-carrier location-routing model

SPACEFIL    heuristic multiple traveling-salesmen program

LOWRY       traditional land-use model

YI-CHAN     disaggregate/bifurcation implementation of the Garin-Lowry model

PATTERN     image classification software

SPACE       image-processing program



Directory #2 IMAGEFILES:  Data files for image processing



Satellite images of the U.S. that are of interest to the PATTERN and SPACE 

programs





NOTE

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To view the ASCII text and PDF files on this CD, we suggest using a display 

setting suitable for viewing 10-point font documents.





Yupo Chan, Author

ychan@alum.MIT.edu

