Operations Research
Principles and Practice

A. Ravindran (Author), Don T. Phillips (Author), James J. Solberg (Author)

9780471086086, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 11 February 1987

656 pages
25.8 x 18.2 x 3.5 cm, 1.306 kg

Totally revised, this 2nd 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]