Management Science
Published in November 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
850 pages
978-0-13-097486-0 (ISBN)
Description
This text focuses on teaching the "thinking process" used in quantitive decision making. It emphasizes the building of optimization models before entering data, so that students obtain better understanding of results; it also stresses computer analysis and interpreting outputs for decision solving.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-097486-0 (9780130974860)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction to management science; the art and science of building deterministic models; applications of linear programming; linear programming - the graphical approach, a conceptual approach to the simplex alogorithm, using the computer; multi-objective optimization using goal programming; linear integer programming - algorithms and applications; distribution network problems - transportation, trans-shipment, and assignment problems; project management - PERT/CPM; decision analysis; inventory models; queuing models; analysing a single line, multiple channel queuing system with exponential arrival and service processes (M/M/C); computer simulation - applications and statistical analysis; forecasting.