This edition includes a new chapter on decision analysis, and additional material on computer solutions of linear programming problems, LP applications, the use of sensitivity analysis output, minimal spanning tree, goal programming, network of queues, and more. Throughout, mathematics is kept to an intermediate level.

Table of contents

• The Nature of Operations Research
• Linear Programming
• Network Analysis
• Advanced Topics in Linear Programming
• Decision Analysis
• Random Processes
• Queueing Models
• Inventory Models
• Simulation
• Dynamic Programming
• Nonlinear Programming
• Appendices
• Index