TY - BOOK AU - Taha, A. Hamdy TI - Operations Research: An introduction SN - 10:0-13-136014-0/ 13:978-0-13-136014-3 U1 - 005.4 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New Jersy PB - Pearson Prentice Hall KW - Operations Research KW - Social science Research N1 - What is operations research? -- Modeling with linear programming -- The simplex method and sensitvity analysis -- Duality and post-optimal analysis -- Transportation model and its variant -- Network model -- Advanced linear programming -- Goal programming -- Integer linear programming -- Heuristic programming -- Traveling salesperson problem (TSP) -- Deterministic dynamic programming -- Inventory modeling (with introduction to supply chains) -- Review of basic probability -- Decision analysis and games -- Probabilistic inventory models -- Markov chains -- Queuing systems -- Simulation modeling -- Classical optimization theory -- Nonlinear programming algorithms; To be used Within the Library ER -