TY - BOOK AU - Taha, Hamdy A. TI - Operations research : an introduction SN - 9780130323743 U1 - 658.4034 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pearson Education, KW - Operations research KW - Programming (Mathematics) N1 - Includes index, CD ROM available here; 1. What is operations research? -- 2. Introduction to linear programming -- 3. The simplex method -- 4. Duality and sensitivity analysis -- 5. Transportation model and its variants -- 6. Network models -- 7. Advanced linear programming -- 8. Goal programming -- 9. Integer linear programming -- 10. Deterministic dynamic programming -- 11. Deterministic inventory models -- 12. Review of basic probability -- 13. Forecasting models -- 14. Decision analysis and games -- 15. Probabilistic dynamic programming -- 16. Probabilistic inventory models -- 17. Queuing systems -- 18. Simulation modeling -- 19. Markovian decision process -- 20. Classical optimization theory -- 21. Nonlinear programming algorithms N2 - CD-ROM contains: algorithms and explanations -- tutorial features -- menu-driven TORA optimization system -- over 20 general and ready-to-use Excel spreadsheet templates -- several Excel Solver templates -- example applications of the commercial packages AMPL and LINGO ER -