Introduction to operations research
Frederick S. Hillier (Author), Gerald J. Lieberman (Author)
Offers comprehensive coverage of fundamentals, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text.
Print Book, English, 2015
Tenth edition View all formats and editions
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2015
xxx, 1010 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 access card.
9780073523453, 9781259253188, 0073523453, 125925318X
1013344038
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. Queuing theory
18. Inventory theory
19. Markov decision processes
20. Simulation
Appendix 1. Documentation for the OR courseware
Appendix 2. Convexity
Appendix 3. Classical optimization methods
Appendix 4. Matrices and matrix operations
Appendix 5. Table for a Normal Distribution
Partial answers to selected problems