Operations Research: An Introduction, Global Edition

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- 1. What Is Operations Research? - 2. Modeling with Linear Programming - 3. The Simplex Method and Sensitivity Analysis - 4. Duality and Post-Optimal Analysis - 5. Transportation Model and Its Variants - 6. Network Models - 7. Advanced Linear Programming - 8. Goal Programming - 9. Integer Linear Programming - 10. Heuristic and Constraint Programming - 11. Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) - 12. Deterministic Dynamic Programming - 13. Inventory Modeling (with Introduction to Supply Chains) - 14. Review of Basic Probability - 15. Decision Analysis and Games - 16. Probabilistic Inventory Models - 17. Markov Chains - 18. Queuing Systems - 19. Simulation Modeling - 20. Classical Optimization Theory - 21. Nonlinear Programming Algorithms - Appendix A: Statistical Tables - Appendix B: Partial Answers to Selected Problems