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For researchers and managers of organizations, Modrak (manufacturing technology, Technical U. of Kosice, Slovakia) and Pandian (mechanical engineering, Kalasalingam U., India) compile 20 chapters by an international group of engineers and economists on operations management, with a focus on topics related to layout design for manufacturing environments and production planning and scheduling in a cellular manufacturing environment. They address decision making in layout design, the development and comparison of optimization algorithms, and techniques for cell formation problems; production planning and scheduling, including cell loading and family scheduling, models of systems, operator skill, algorithms, and mathematical programming models; and aspects of flexible and robotic manufacturing cells, lean thinking, equipment replacement decision models, and a multi-modal assembly-support system. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)