TY - BOOK AU - Hillier, Frederick S TI - Introduction to operations research SN - 9780071333467 U1 - 658.4034 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Tata Mc-graw Hill KW - Operations research N1 - Include Index; Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Overview of the operations research modeling approach -- Chapter 3. Introduction to linear programming -- Chapter 4. Solving linear programming problems: the simplex method -- Chapter 5. The theory of the simplex method -- Chapter 6. Duality theory and sensitivity analysis -- Chapter 7. Other algorithms for linear programming -- Chapter 8. The transportation and assignment problems -- Chapter 9. Network optimization models -- Chapter 10. Dynamic programming -- Chapter 11. Integer programming -- Chapter 12. Nonlinear programming -- Chapter 13. Metaheuristics -- Chapter 14. Game theory -- Chapter 15. Decision analysis -- Chapter 16. Markov chains -- Chapter 17. Queuing theory -- Chapter 18. Inventory theory -- Chapter 19. Markov decision processes -- Chapter 20. Simulation. CD-ROM: Additional cases -- Supplement 1 to chapter 3 -- Supplement 2 to chapter 3 -- Supplement to chapter 7 -- Supplement to chapter 8 -- Supplement 1 to chapter 18 -- Supplement 2 to chapter 18 -- Supplement 1 to chapter 20 -- Supplement 2 to chapter 20 -- Supplement 3 to chapter 20 -- Chapter 21. The art of modeling with spreadsheets -- Chapter 22. Project management with PERT/CPM -- Chapter 23. Additional special types of linear programming problems -- Chapter 24. Probability theory -- Chapter 25. Reliability -- Chapter 26. The application of queueing theory -- Chapter 27. Forecasting -- Chapter 28. Examples of performing simulations on spreadsheets with Crystal Ball -- 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 -- Appendix 6. Non-traditional transportation models -- Appendix 7. Simultaneous linear equations -- ER -