Introduction to Operations Research

✍ Scribed by Hillier, Frederick S.; Lieberman, Gerald J

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1411
• Edition: 10ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While building on the classic strengths of the original text, the author continues to find new ways to make this book current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include clear and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of operations research, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1 Introduction --
2 Overview of the Operations Research Modeling Approach --
3 Introduction to Linear Programming --
4 Solving Linear Programming Problems: The Simplex Method --
5 The Theory of the Simplex Method --
6 Duality Theory --
7 Linear Programming under Uncertainty --
8 Other Algorithms for Linear Programming --
9 The Transportation and Assignment Problems --
10 Network Optimization Models --
11 Dynamic Programming --
12 Integer Programming --
13 Nonlinear Programming --
14 Metaheuristics --
15 Game Theory --
16 Decision Analysis --
17 Queing Theory --
18 Inventory Theory --
19 Markov Decision Processes --
20 Simulation --
Appendix 1 Documentation for the OR Courseware --
Appendex 2 Convexity --
Appendix 3 Classical Optimization Methods --
Appendix 4 Matricies and Matrix Operations --
Appendix 5 Table for a Normal Distribution.

✦ Subjects

Recherche opérationnelle -- Guides, manuels, etc;Recherche opérationnelle -- Études de cas;Recherche opérationnelle -- Problèmes et exercices;Recherche opérationnelle;Programmation linéaire;Operations research