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Operations Research An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 0132729156

ISBN-13: 9780132729154

Edition: 6th 1997

Authors: Hamdy A. Taha

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Appropriate for a variety of junior and senior undergraduate and first year graduate courses in operations research. Among these courses are Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Major revision is designed to meet the needs of beginning through advanced students with an emphasis placed on the formulation and applications aspects. Provides balanced coverage of theory, applications and computations of operations research techniques. Numerical examples are main vehicle for explaining new ideas with each numeric example followed by a set of problems. TORA and SIMNET software included in text. More than 1,000 problems.
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Book details

List price: $110.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/27/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 916
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

Overview of Operations Research
Deterministic Models
Introduction to Linear Programming
The Simplex Method
Duality and Sensitivity Analysis
Transportation Model and Its Variants
Network Models
Advanced Linear Programming
Goal Programming
Integer Linear Programming
Deterministic Dynamic Programming
Deterministic Inventory Models
Probabilistic Models
Review of Basic Probability
Forecasting Models
Decision Analysis and Games
Probabilistic Dynamic Programming
Probabilistic Inventory Models
Queueing Systems
Simulation Modeling
Markovian Decision Process
Nonlinear Models
Classical Optimization Theory
Nonlinear Programming Algorithms
Review of Matrix Algebra
Introduction to Simnet II
Tora and Simnet II Installation and Execution
Statistical Tables
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
Index