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Practical Management Science

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ISBN-10: 1111531315

ISBN-13: 9781111531317

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: Wayne L. Winston, S. Christian Albright

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List price: $324.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cengage South-Western
Publication date: 5/5/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 936
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.894
Language: English

Wayne L. Winston is a professor of Decision Sciences at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and the recipient of more than 30 teaching awards. For the past 20 years, Wayne has also taught Fortune 500 companies how to use Excel to make smarter business decisions. He has written 15 books on Excel, management science, and mathematics in sports.

S. Christian Albright received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel. Dr. Albright has published more than 20 articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability as well as a number of…    

Brief Contents
Introduction to Modeling
Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling
Introduction to Optimization Modeling
Linear Programming Models
Network Models
Optimization Models with Integer Variables
Nonlinear Optimization Models
Evolutionary Solver: An Alternative Optimization Procedure
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Introduction to Simulation Modeling
Simulation Models
Inventory Models
Queueing Models
Regression and Forecasting Models
Project Management (Online only)
Multiobjective Decision Making (Online only)