Introduction to operations research

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

• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Education
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1050
• Edition: 10. ed
• 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

Operations research.;Operations Research.;Operations Research